GCW Zero Consoles for sale!! Brand New!!

[Iggy]

I don't see the advantage over an ARM tablet as those have similar features, often with more memory and better resolution.

[Iggy]

Cool, I guess, X.
MIPS processor though?
Its a little weird.

[Iggy]

Good thing about this console is that has official amiga kickstart licenses included. I heard the all-commodore emulator VICE comes pre-installed and ready to go.

So, supporting this console, also supports what remains of commodore, in a "spiritual" way.

I'd like to know how the games look on the screen's resolution and also if it includes all games pre-installed...

Where did you hear this, because there is nothing about this mentioned in their literature?

[Iggy]

There's a vid on youtube with GCW Zero running a c64 emu and uae4all.  I'm almost tempted to buy one from Think Geek.

So it runs uae4all?
Not sure that's much of a selling point.

Any more than trying to run uae on a Raspberry.

I can do that on the laptop I'm typing on right now, probably better.

The only advantage I can see is the portability.

[Iggy]

I guess I'm just not part of the target market, because I don't get it.

I've got enough devices, especially those I can play old fashioned games on.

[Iggy]

I'm not in the market but it's pretty cool to carry around a portable retro system that can fit in your pocket.

That appears to be the primary advantage. And for those of you who still use a lot of Amiga games, its a really good one.
I don't want to knock it as, its just the apps I still use are productivity tools that will run under MorphOS (and that's not nearly as portable as the smallest device that runs on is a 12" iBook).
The Genesis and Playstation compatibility are nice.
And once all the hardware drivers are sorted out, original software created for the platform could be pretty cool.

[Iggy]

Shame that there probably won't be any decent original software on it though.

Yeah "chicken and egg" syndrome again.
Not enough software to attract buyers, not enough units/owners to attract software developers.

It looks nice and solid, compact, and the controls look good.
I just don't get into games enough to justify it.

It looks like it has a browser.
That could be useful, although there I'd probably stick to a larger device.

[Iggy]

In 2014, at a 320x240 resolution, browsing would be horrible.

No worse than my Blackberry.

Edit - Then again, the Blackberry has a keyboard.