Home made consules or game systems

[cyberfluxor]

Did a small search and found nothing, so I was currious how many people have seen or heard of home made consules. In general it could be anything like a person creating a consule without just stacking boards or even creating a logical game consule itself. Of course the most simple would be pong, guessing, or hand-eye response game systems but it's open to anything. Also if anyone on here has ever written an operating system for a computer to make it dedicate itself to a game system would also be nifty.

Oh ya, and it doesn't fall under formatting a computer into DOS and saying you run DOS games on it. You didn't program anything or modify hardware to run something special not normally run on a PC, but if you modified a PS2 to dual boot on a PC, that's nifty and can fall in place.

[Kid Ice]

Someone had a kit for sale at CGE. Looked like you could make a Colecovision-like game. Don't remember what it was called though.

[OdSquad64]

http://www.hack247.co.uk/2006/06/23/diy-games-console/

that guy made his own game console, his site that tells more about it seems to be down right now, but you can read that and get some information about it and links to other, similar, stuff

[cyberfluxor]

http://www.hack247.co.uk/2006/06/23/diy-games-console/
Now that's what I'm talking about. :D

Because I hope to one day either:
A) Rebuild a UNIX machine to because a game OS with lots of platforms.
B) Build a board system with a shell that'd be homemade.
C) Screw it, be lazy and write software for MAC/WIN.

Ideas like this are interesting to me and give ideas. Of course if I build a game system and had some homebrewers write software for it there'd be some flash memory cards or hard set cards to play off. So, did anyone on these forums ever design a game consule at the hardware level or even do customizations of redesigning boards to play more than 1 consule breed?

[Reid]

Wow- I have thought of people making a home-made console before- but I never checked it out-

Thats pretty cool

[udisi]

I thought of it too, but it's really cost inhibitive. If you'd want to make say even a 16 bit, or better console, you'd have to design it's processor, and engineer the motherboard, even after that you'd have to pay a chip maker to produce it. very cool idea, but very expensive.

You could try to frankenstien somthing out of other console componets, but even this would be a great task to accomplish

[anagrama]

Anyone got a picture of that horrible wooden franken-console that was on eBay about a year ago?

[Zadoc]

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/17/185240