6 comments

  • flopsamjetsam 4 hours ago
    From the GitHub page:

    > It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk text to the technology that powered them.

    • jihadjihad 2 hours ago
      Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.
      • LukeShu 1 hour ago
        I mean no disrespect to Luke Wren, but he did not write it in 2026; he wrote it in 2018-2021. :)
      • tough 2 hours ago
        on the other hand having emoji on the readme is a great signal of llm-slop on my radar
  • bananaboy 2 hours ago
    Oh this is Luke Wren’s work. He’s an ASIC design engineer at Raspberry Pi. Amazing project, I love it!
    • LukeShu 1 hour ago
      I think "ASIC design" engineer is under-selling him--he's working on their CPU cores too!
      • bananaboy 56 minutes ago
        Haha yeah I just went by his LinkedIn title
  • wewewedxfgdf 2 hours ago
    This guy also designed DVI/HDMI from RP2040:

    https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

    • LukeShu 1 hour ago
      He works at Raspberry Pi, and designed the Hazard3 RISC-V core that is at the heart of the RP2350--although he did Hazard3 in his spare time. It's actually a fork of the "Hazard5" core that he designed for the RISCBoy.
  • LukeShu 1 hour ago
    I'm surprised to see that it's OK that he has opensource AHB/APB stuff in it--I'd avoided learning them too much about them assuming that they were ARM proprietary.
    • bri3d 1 hour ago
      AMBA has been an open standard for a really long time, I think maybe since it was released?
  • joshu 4 hours ago
    i love the "hardware from an alternate universe" projects.
  • iFire 4 hours ago
    Does RISCBoy run Godot Engine? How can I make RISCBoy run Godot Engine?
    • bananaboy 2 hours ago
      If you set up the RISCBoy toolchain and port it then yeah.
    • Narishma 3 hours ago
      No. You can't.
      • emilfihlman 2 hours ago
        I'm quite willing to bet it can be done in this era of enabling developers with slob, which still usually works.
        • Narishma 2 hours ago
          How can you fit Godot into 512KB of RAM? And with no GPU?