Simon Willison Demonstrates Game Boy Color Games on a Conference Badge
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge
- Who
- Steve Francia
- What
- deployed Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulators on the GitHub Universe conference badge
- Quote
who worked with Gemini to get a full NES emulator working on it, and then went a step further and deployed an emulator for both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.
What happened
At GitHub Universe this week, Simon Willison tried out a color screen computer built into the conference badge. Steve Francia worked with Gemini to get an NES emulator running on it, then deployed emulators for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. With a ROM, the badge can run The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, using touch buttons built into its body when turned upside down.
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Steve Francia deployed Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulators on the GitHub Universe conference badge after working with Gemini to get an NES emulator running on it. Simon Willison tried the badge’s built-in color-screen computer at the conference. With a ROM, the badge can run The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Players turn the badge upside down to use touch buttons built into its body.
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