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Palm Pilot Handheld Emulation?

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JonnyBoy:
I was reading the mini PC thread and was just thinking about how cool it would be to have a handheld mame machine

What if...

You ripped out all of the innards of a palm pilot, mounted them into a handheld box of some sort. Then possibly get some sort of mini joysticks or something and wire them up? I don't know, I'm kind of going off on a tangent and doing some dreaming. Anybody think about doing this and determine it's difficulty or if it can even be done?

crashwg:
If I'm understanding you correctly, it's been done before...

http://arcade.laweb.nl/PocketGalaga/

there's also a mini pacman I believe and I'm pretty sure it was the first but I am drawing a blank, sorry.

JonnyBoy:
That's thing is awesome!

I was looking for something more along the lines of like, a gameboy or something. Something with multiple games that can be browsed through. That'd be killer. Thanks!

By the way, where did he get those tiny joysticks?

Snarbald:
Looks like he made the joystick out of a nail and some microswitches.

romperwomb:

--- Quote from: JonnyBoy on January 02, 2005, 10:39:28 pm ---That's thing is awesome!

I was looking for something more along the lines of like, a gameboy or something. Something with multiple games that can be browsed through. That'd be killer. Thanks!

By the way, where did he get those tiny joysticks?

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XCade is an arcade emulator for Palm OS, runs about 18 games or so.
http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/xabout.html

Edit: Wow, just found out about Virtual PCB Emulator for Palm OS, another arcade emu for Palm.
http://rittwage.com/dynpage.php?pg=vpcb

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