Almost ROM-ready floppydrive for GameBoy Color
Ok, there is hardware and then there is software. Still lovely hardware has so much charm, that we like to spend hours and hours with that gadgetry. Much more irrational is to spend days, maybe weeks, in tweaking hardware together that normally would never meet in this universe. It then reads software for the other device, that normally would never find its way to the datadisk on that very device. To make things short: Some French people build a floppydrive ready connectable to a GameBoy Color.
With that floppy drive you can read files just right into the gameboy from 3,5" disks. At the moment it can't directly read and boot ROM-files, but they posted a possible way to do so. And maybe we will have that update one day. ROM-files normally require hardware-modules gameboy ready or emulator software. This here is the other way round.
There are lots of ways to play gameboy stuff completely emulated and software driven, meanwhile on almost any device with a screen and some keys. But this here made easy things complicated and then easy again in a very charming way. Sometimes I just love the homebrewers.
via boingboing