I discovered the Thumby Color recently, a follow up on the original Thumby. After looking at the specs, I couldn't help but wonder if it would be well-suited to playing PICO-8 games. It's got a color screen now, and a 128x128 pixel screen (!), running on a raspberry pi. I'm not super familar with running PICO-8 on anything other than windows, but I'm willing to figure it out if it looks like this could work.
Has anyone else taken a look at doing this? Any idea how hard it would be?
Thumby Color kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kenburns/thumby-color
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I don't know about the technical feasibility (looks like this runs a Raspberry Pi RP2350 Processor, for what that's worth), but I would definitely be interested in this. I got the first gen Thumby, but the controls are just too small, this looks significantly more usable.
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That device is super adorable but it looks like a nightmare to play. I don’t have an answer to your question. But if you’re looking for a device to play pico-8 on, I recently got a miyoo mini plus and it works great despite not having the same 128x128 resolution as pico.
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Tech specs say it has 520kb of RAM, which seems like it would be well short of what you need to run PICO-8.
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