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I have been thinking along those lines myself.

I have been playing around with a per scanline generated display on a rp2350 outputting to a tiny LCD. I think there's potential for some pretty fancy stuff on HDMI. A 2350 with PSRAM, HDMI connector plus a MicroSD for bulk filesytem, and USB for input could be quite a fun micro PC.

I would be tempted to make somthing that had a second RP2350 with its own PSRAM sitting unutilized just as a temptation to users to figure out how to get more out of the gadget and learn about different multiprocessing architectures.

One of these https://www.waveshare.com/core2350b.htm

With one of these https://www.waveshare.com/rp2350-matrix.htm

Mounted on top, and an HDMI connector squeezed in somewhere,

I am a bit reminded of what GeoWorks Ensemble managed on a 640k 8086. Theoretically you could make a tiny system like this do even more.

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> I am a bit reminded of what GeoWorks Ensemble managed on a 640k 8086.

I was looking at similar recently for a project, and came across FrankOS: https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-os

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Check out the Adafruit Fruit Jam, its got pretty much everything you need.
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There's PicoMite: https://geoffg.net/picomite.html

It's a BASIC interpreter/OS for the RP2040

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Yes, they are more powerful than classical MS-DOS PCs, so there is plenty of juice in them.
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Not sure on the performance but it might be possible to port this Mini Micro to those platforms.
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Doubtful. Isn't Mini Micro build on Unity? That has much higher system requirements.
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why not just use a vintage computer or game console then?
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The main thing is video output. Even VGA is fading away now. HDMI is kind of what you need to be relevant to a lot of potenial users.
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