Guru
Joined: 16/09/2019
Location: United KingdomPosts: 4395
| Posted: 09:40am 11 Apr 2025 |
Recommendation from a friend (an extremely cynical and hard to impress electronics engineer - no not Peter
), he was amazed at the power and quality at the price point.This thing seriously kicks arse:
- ARM Cortex-A35 quad core processor @1.5GHz.
- 3.5” IPS display @ 640×480 resolution.
- 1GB LPDDR3 RAM & 64GB storage – Up to 128GB Micro SD card.
- 3200 mAh rechargeable battery, up to 6 hours based on usage.
- 27 consoles in One supporting over a dozen retro games consoles.
Case in point, I'm away from home at the moment and didn't want to take my personal laptop (I forgot to encrypt the drive when I built it, and encrypting a Linux drive after the fact is a problem) so instead I'm using the R36S as a Linux build and development machine! I've got a wifi dongle hanging off an OTG cable on it and I'm using my ancient ChromeOS tablet and bluetooth keyboard as a terminal.
Of course when it comes to games there is the question of why you would want to play MMBasic games on it when it is already capable of running pretty much every arcade game and console up to the late 90's.
Note that it's about gameboy sized, so the controls are perhaps a little awkward for some adult fingers.
Best wishes,
Tom