Perspective Shift

Last night I learnt that the 32bit  graphics cartridges on the evercade work ok the super pocket. I was convinced the super pocket would have limited support for Evercade games and only play the 8bit and 16bit side scrolling games. I was wrong because I saw a Scottish guy on youtube playing tomb raider 1, 2 and 3 on the system. 

Here is is video, hopefully the link still works your present time. 

https://youtu.be/FA9-aGyX-kw?si=vF7XkRLovNhH1LzM

To me it is amazing because I thought the super pocket is just a generic pocket emulator for playing side scrolling retro games. I didn't know it can handle the first generation 3d games that were played on the original playstation and Nintendo 64. It's amazing to me because it handles the games without overheating, there is no vent or fan to cool it down; they figured out a way to handle lots of 3d polygons without using too much power and heat. 

What I am trying  to say is they have made a pocket PlayStation with no moving parts, no fan, no vent for the processors, just a heat sync panel. 

I get it though, they have designed processors and graphics controller chips that can do quite a lot of work without using too much power and spurting out too much heat; even my current phone, the Motorola g85 has the snap dragon 600 and adrino 600 graphics chips, and my phone wasn't sold as top graphics pocket system like the new Samsung galaxy phones or I-phone 14. 

It's amazing to me. Not to the previous generations that take it for granted, it is amazing to me and people a like me that have some perspective. 

We all have super computers in our pockets, computers that would trump the best computers in the oldern days. 

Evercade Thoughts

I was looking through the evercade website https://evercade.co.uk/ and was thinking it would be a good idea to start with the super pocket system first and then get the alpha bar top player when the pocket system is worn out. Both the Evercade alpha and the super pocket take the same cartridges. 

I also found it amusing that they have cartridge collections from handheld devices that were discontinued. I can play the Atari lynx collection as if I were playing the original hand held system. I never had a game gear or Atari lynx so in a way I could get both of them. I didn't even know neo geo made a hand held game system when I was a kid. 

A retro world waiting to be discovered...