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Re: Gameboy Camera

From: "Timothy D. Gray" <>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:21:49 -0400 (EDT)

Hmm a B&W quickcam sells for 39.00
no interface needed and it get's alot better frame rate.

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Todd Freeman wrote:

> 	Don't know if any of you noticed or not but Nintendo seems to
> have come out with a nifty. They made a camera that works with their
> Gameboy system as a plug in cartridge. The frame rate doesn't look that
> hot but from the fact that a gameboy uses 4 AA or 4AAA the power
> consumption would have to be nice for wearable use. 
> 	The add that I saw the camera looked a little more pixly then
> the Gameboy screen and appeared to have a frame rate of about 2-3fps.
> Also it had stuff on board for adding little animations and pictures and
> lots of photo editing and clip art adding.
> 
> Looks like if the interface is easy that it would be a nice thing to
> have... Best of all the MSRP is $49.95 US which means in a year garage
> sales will have them for $5  :)
> 
> Site is:
> http://www.nintendo.com/gb/gb_camera/index.html
> 
> Now all we need is linux for the Gameboy... :)
> 
> -- 
> Todd Freeman
> CS Unix Support
> CAST Online Editor
> Web site: http://www.andrews.edu/~freeman/
> 

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