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Re: Gameboy Camera

From: "James R. Hall" <>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:50:12 -0500

I thought uzi was a cp/m os, not a unix os

     -James, N9XLC
     -

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Lofley <>
To:  <>
Date: Monday, June 01, 1998 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Gameboy Camera

>I previous tried to start a gameboy wearable but my major downfall was a
>storage device.  It is completely possible and feesible but I didn't
>have time to develop one.  I'm going to start work on it again though.
>As far as Linux on a gameboy.  It has already been ported to Z80.  Its
>called UZI.  If your interested in developing a Gameboy Wearable please
>let me know.
>Kent
>
>Todd Freeman wrote:
>> 
>>         Don't know if any of you noticed or not but Nintendo seems to
>> have come out with a nifty. They made a camera that works with their
>> Gameboy system as a plug in cartridge. The frame rate doesn't look that
>> hot but from the fact that a gameboy uses 4 AA or 4AAA the power
>> consumption would have to be nice for wearable use.
>>         The add that I saw the camera looked a little more pixly then
>> the Gameboy screen and appeared to have a frame rate of about 2-3fps.
>> Also it had stuff on board for adding little animations and pictures and
>> lots of photo editing and clip art adding.
>> 
>> Looks like if the interface is easy that it would be a nice thing to
>> have... Best of all the MSRP is $49.95 US which means in a year garage
>> sales will have them for $5  :)
>> 
>> Site is:
>> http://www.nintendo.com/gb/gb_camera/index.html
>> 
>> Now all we need is linux for the Gameboy... :)
>> 
>> --
>> Todd Freeman
>> CS Unix Support
>> CAST Online Editor
>> Web site: http://www.andrews.edu/~freeman/
>
>

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