There’s a new contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena, but will it find anyone there? The new GameTank by Clydeware is an open source design leveraging venerable MOS Technology 6502-based processing. However, it may punch well above its weight, with its clean-sheet dismissal of legacy baggage, its twin-CPUs, and its custom framebuffer-based graphics architecture.
Importantly, the GameTank isn’t for playing games (or emulators) from other 8-bit systems. It is designed to be a standalone…