Some additional hardware photos below from the Assemblergames archive.👇

This is the IS-AGB-MIDI development cartridge for #Gameboy Advance by Intelligent Systems. This midi cartridge was used with the IS-AGB-EMULATOR kits by developers & producers. It allowed the testing of sounds and #MIDI musical tracks on real hardware.😎🤘#gamedev #RETROGAMING

During the era of the Atari 2600, programmers primarily used DEC PDP-11 minicomputers, connected to an in-house "black box" hardware development system and logic analyzer. They entered code in 6502 assembly on a TeleVideo 950 terminal and cross-assembled it on the PDP-11. The compiled binary was then sent via a serial line to their in-house "black box”. This dev box contained RAM memory cards, a prototype #Atari 2600 with TV monitor port for testing. #gamedev #retrogaming

Shown here are two Sega GameGear development cartridges by: “Realtime / Riverrun”.😎🤘 Not much is known about these cartridges or which studio designed and released them. Back in 2013 in the SMSPower.org development forums, user “BOCK” posted a potential matching ISA interface card for these debug cartridges. If anyone has any info or knows a developer that may have used these, please do forward any information my way.👍🙏 #Sega #gamegear #gamedev #retrogaming #gamedevelopment

The NUS-16F32SB-01 boards can be populated with up to x16 Sharp LH28F032 32 Mbit flash chips (4MBytes each). The Altera MAX CPLD memory controller will accommodate memory up to 512Mbits. So a 128Mbit flash cart (like the one shown above) will have x4 LH28F032 memory chips populated on the back side. And of course, a 256MBit will have x8, and the extremely rare 512Mbit flash carts (64MBytes) have all x16 chips populated on both front and back sides of the cartridge PCBA. Again, the 512Mb cartridges are extremely rare.😎🤘#N64 #gamedev #retrogaming

Additional shots…👇

The SGI Challenge and Onyx models first came out in 1993. My deskside model was from that year. 😎👌👇

If only X allowed more than x4 options in the poll. I’d have at least 8 kits listed…. Lol 😄👍

That’s still really cool. 👍 I recently dove into a couple courses on @pikuma website. These are really amazing! I’m still working through them, but I do highly recommend checking it out. He’s got so many cool game programming courses available. Super fun and well worth the investment.😎👌 👀👇 xitter.cf/pikuma?s=11

Indeed! It’s actually pretty amazing what the N64 homebrew community have been able to achieve the past few years. The folks over at N64Brew on discord have made some pretty cool advances with the open source N64 SDK Libdragon. Their annual GameJam’s always pump out some really cool projects. Definitely check it out if you get a chance.😎🤘👇 N64Brew Discord Server invite link below: discord.gg/nHjbc9d

Years back some photos surfaced of a similar type of N64 addon unit. A concept design as well, but of a different design. It was outfitted to connect to a TV via RF/composite video with stereo audio. It also appeared to use an internal IDE hard drive. 😎👌

There was no real specific CPU model required for the Ultra64. Compatibility depended entirely on your operating system and compiler toolchain versions. Because the actual N64 hardware (the VR4300 CPU and Reality Coprocessor) was built right onto the Ultra64 development board itself, the Indy's CPU only processed the IRIX operating system: (the MIPS C compiler (cc), and code compilation tasks.) My setup ran IRIX V5.3, which was required for early versions of Ultra64 SDK. The Manuals recommended that your Indy workstation should use either a MIPS R4000, MIPS R4400 or MIPS R4600 to work properly with the Ultra64. So an Indy equipped with an R4400 at 150 MHz or 175 MHz paired with 64MB to 128MB of RAM would be a safe bet. 😎🤘 I just added some more details about the debugger to the post. 👀👇 xitter.cf/_behindthecode/status/…

The #Sega 32X itself that comes as part of the #SNASM CartDev development kit, is actually a Modified version. It contains additional digital logic boards and many re-routed tie-lines to help support the debugging functionality of the system. (Reset / Interrupt signals etc.) I’m currently working on mapping out all the needed modifications and will add all my findings to my website once completed. 😎🤘 Huge thanks to @bigevilboss for his assistance with this endeavour. behindthecode.ca