Alex on Pocket Chip

no-reply@allegro.cc (Mark Oates) — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:44:16 +0000

I have no idea what Pocket Chip is, thanks to MiquelFire for sharing this link:

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Long live Allegro!

no-reply@allegro.cc (Gideon Weems) — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:21:15 +0000

It's a $9 computer with 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, and 4 GB storage.

I wonder if they chose to demo Alex 4 specifically because it wasn't too demanding on the CPU. If this thing could run other Allegro games, somebody please put a bare bones window manager on one and make it an Allegro Boy.

no-reply@allegro.cc (GullRaDriel) — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:28:10 +0000

Looks like an old pip boy ^^

no-reply@allegro.cc (Neil Roy) — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:09:39 +0000

Kewl! What's a Pocket Chip? First I heard of it. But still kewl.

no-reply@allegro.cc (MiquelFire) — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 03:00:39 +0000

Pocket Chip is an addon to Chip, a $9 computer. Would have been the first, but before everyone who backed Chip got theirs, Raspberry PI released a $5 computer!

no-reply@allegro.cc (Gideon Weems) — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:14:13 +0000

I guess I'll hold out till they release a -$5 computer.