bbbbbr

Been on a "Making Dev Tools Detour" patching the #SameBoy #GameBoy emulator to support the special hardware in the #MegaDuck laptop model (a modified Game Boy clone in laptop form).

Initializing the peripherals, polling the keyboard, RTC, it's ROM bank switching, etc.

So possibly for the first time ever: the MegaDuck Super Quique System ROM doing it's thing in an emulator.

It also runs my port of GB-Wordyl with keyboard support.
See: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@bbbbbr/111510471914962213

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bbbbbr (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video GB-Wordyl for the #MegaDuck Laptop models! Possibly the first homebrew release to ever use the physical keyboard on this console. The MegaDuck is a slightly altered Game Boy clone, and there is even this weird and delightful laptop version. With some reverse engineering it's now possible to use some of it's special features. ROM: https://bbbbbr.itch.io/gb-wordyl Thanks to Eucal.BB for help with laptop model testing! Open source, of course :) https://github.com/bbbbbr/gb-wordle #gbdev #Wordle #GameBoy

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Sep 3, 2024 at 3:49amWeb
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@bbbbbr this is super cool!

Those Quique laptops were very advertised in TV when I was young and I didn’t realise they were (kind of) game boys!

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@pauto It would be interesting to see advertisements for them... I imagine those are lost to time though. Didn't know they'd made that much of an effort.

I wonder how many were sold.
If they'd licensed and ported over a couple decent (or even 2nd rate) Game Boy games it could have made the laptops (and handhelds) more appealing. The game library is mostly unfortunate.