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As you may know, Famiclones are everywhere in the developing world--and tons of them are tricked out with keyboards. Furthermore, since the patents have expired, these devices are now (mostly) legal!   The devices are often sold as "educational computers" and typically come with BASIC programming and multi-carts.

Do you know about playpower.org? We're trying to support the open-source community that makes new 8-bit games... and then build relationships with the clone manufacturers...  give the games away to the manufactures, so that the new games will be bundled with the clones... which means that the games would end up in the hands of millions of low-income kids every year.  That's the goal, anyway!

This 5 minute video explains it all...  http://poptech.org/popcasts/derek_lomas … urce_games

In the process, we are trying to re-imagine world cultures through an 8-bit lens. Like our 8-bit learning games based on Hindu Mythology.  Seriously, Hanuman makes a great game character.  http://poptech.org/blog/educational_gam … dent_teams

Last december, we hosted a workshop in Hyderabad India.  Our next workshop is in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  As part of this, we've made a bunch of programming tutorials available at wiki.playpower.org, if you want to help make games/graphics/music.  And we have a volunteer site at volunteers.playpower.org

We'd be really open to any ideas or suggestions that you guys have...

Any personal experiences with clones?  Met anyone who has learned BASIC from the keyboard clones?  Game suggestions?  Or maybe you think we are sick and twisted for promoting 8-bit computers to low-income kids...  I'd love to know what you think.

Cheers,
Derek@playpower