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Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

Simon Willison

At GitHub Universe, Simon Willison describes his conference badge, a full-color screen computer. He notes that Steve Francia, working with Gemini, built a full NES emulator for the badge and then extended it to Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulators, allowing The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening to run on the badge. The badge can be turned upside down to use built-in game controller touch buttons.

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