ladyada has released the Fuzebox, an open-source 8-bit game console. Features:

• Full 256 simultaneous output colors, 240×224 pixel resolution
• Tile & sprite support
• Two player ports, either with Super Nintendo or classic Nintendo controllers (although the kit comes with SNES)
• NTSC RCA composite and S-video out (PAL not supported at this time )
• 4 channel PCM output mono audio for music and effects
• SD/MMC card support for future expansion
• Built on an Atmel AVR core, 64KB flash and 4KB of RAM
• Main microcontroller chip is preprogrammed with an STK500-compatible (sometimes referred to as Arduino-compatible) bootloader
• Write game code in C, using fully open source tools on any platform

You can purchase a kit, or assemble it from schematics and source.

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