Hmm a B&W quickcam sells for 39.00 no interface needed and it get's alot better frame rate. On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, 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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