5mo ago

Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console

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I don't understand why this needs hardware. Existing devices can already do this
You have:
No tea
- Get tea and no tea
  
  Your common sense prevents you from doing that.
I'm 90% sure that I could play gamebooks right now with my 7-year-old jailbroken Kindle. 100% sure that I could play other types of IF with one of the Boox devices that run Android.
Kids these days were never likely to be eaten by a grue... and it shows. ;)
Nice.
Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?
- The PineNote. Depending on your definition of "proper", since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn't have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.
- The pocketbook is the best I know of on the market right now. I have one (bought it a few months back) and it is exactly what was advertised.
  
  Can i still read my kindle bought stuff on it?
- Looks like the one this is talking about is expected to be open hardware + open software. Given its based on the ESP32 chipset, should be relatively inexpensive and fairly standard
  https://www.crowdsupply.com/ink-console/ink-console
Does this mean I can finally stop wondering why on earth I can't get ye flask?

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