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Wow, while this is very cool (you can even play the games directly in the iPhone browser! [0]) it’s not a self-contained machine with built-in display and keyboard.

Maybe someone can make (or has made?) standalone hardware based on it.

[0] https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=42932#p




The Pocket C.H.I.P. was built around PICO-8

https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/po...


Word of warning from someone who has a Pocket CHIP. As nice as it was while it lasted, the company is a ghost, now. They up and vanished, with outstanding orders, and problems with the OS.

Don't touch this.

Flashing, and reflashing, is a pain, and the OS itself requires some binary blobs that have made it incompatible with any modern version of Debian.

The people controlling the site are one of the third party resellers.

> We are one of the original third party retailers for Next Thing Co.'s amazing products. While we never received much of the bulk of our product purchased for our store, we are now offering up the remainder of our stock to interested customers.




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