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Workboy found and explored.

https://youtu.be/SZcrPM-jDqY [Embed]


>guy finds original creators of workboy peripheral
>guy sends the only one in existence to him

>a few leaks later the Huge nintendo leaks happens and he gets the software for it out of pure luck

Absolute kino

>> No.7227508

>>7227386
That's pretty cool.
Nice video, it gets to the point, yet it didn't rush.
Makes you wonder what else is languishing in a drawer somewhere.

>> No.7227524

>>7227386
Thread already happened OP

>> No.7227530

Nintendo leaks are cringe.

>> No.7227540

>>7227530
Why?

>> No.7227550

>>7227386
thats cool. I want a gameboy keyboard that looks neat

>> No.7227564

>>7227540
Because he's a contrarian faggot

>> No.7227567 [DELETED] 

>>7227564
ikr I love mario personalized also did ypu know nintendo tapes wear out over time and thats why mario 64 has a negative energy aura

>> No.7227578

>>7227567
Make sense, you cumguzzler.

>> No.7227630

>>7227386
Pretty fascinating stuff, technologically, and more amazing that it could be recovered after almost 30 years of being completely gone.

>>7227530
>>7227567
Faggot.

>> No.7227636

>>7227386
noice, now play doom on it

>> No.7227663

>>7227636
Short of using the setup as some kind of passthrough or whatever for more powerful hardware, I don't think you could do that. I think there's a simplistic Wolfenstein 3D style homebrew for the Gameboy though, which is touted as "Gameboy Doom"

>> No.7227712

nice video indeed. I bet that faggot nick robinson is currently seething that his soiboy ass wasnt the first to uncover this little piece of gaming history. his video would have been 4 times as long and 10 times as overly dramatic.

>> No.7227726
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>>7227712
In the comments you can see that that slut from metaljesusrocks tried to get her greedy little hands on it but the engineer ignored her ass

>> No.7227749

>>7227524
Have a link?
I just searched archive with the youtube url and couldn't find any other results.

>> No.7227761

>>7227386
This was the most retarded concept ever and the dude is like “oh he was SOOO ahead of his time!”. Yeah right pal, you’re just being nice cause he was your partner. This turd would have sank immediately and that’s why it was scrapped.

>> No.7227835

>>7227726
That cocktease doesn't even work on anyone anymore because of reddit LoverLaci

>> No.7227845

>>7227761
I don't know, did pdas and planners exist yet that weren't overpriced shit?

I think the weird thing is negotiating screen time with your kids video games

>> No.7227862

>>7227749
>>7218048

>> No.7227876

>>7227845
Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically and/or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying. Although paper was originally made in single sheets by hand, almost all is now made on large machines—some making reels 10 metres wide, running at 2,000 metres per minute and up to 600,000 tonnes a year. It is a versatile material with many uses, including printing, packaging, decorating, writing, cleaning, filter paper, wallpaper, book endpaper, conservation paper, laminated worktops, toilet tissue, currency and security paper and a number of industrial and construction processes.

>> No.7227916

>>7227862
Ah, I was hoping for a maxed out huge thread.
>8 replies

Thanks for link though

>> No.7227919

>>7227726

based frank on #thotpatrol

>> No.7227931

>>7227845

it was probably going to be marketed towards boomers that already owned a gameboy for tetris
somehow the GB title alone sold 35 mil

>> No.7227938

>>7227567
Kek

>> No.7227939

>>7227931
>somehow the GB title alone sold 35 mil
Because Tetris is extremely good, and wasn't really tied down to any childish mascot or branding, so adults felt less hesitation to give it a go. It was also already a huge thing on home computers, people were playing it in the workplace long before it was ever on Gameboy, you could easily sell the Gameboy and its port to that crowd.

>> No.7228030

>>7227386
What was it supposed to be used for? Writing ASM directly onto a gameb or something?

>> No.7228061

>>7227726
Based and patrol'd pilled.

>> No.7228504

>>7227386

I remember seeing that keyboard in magazines in the 1990s.

I wish Nintendo did release it with cartridges that had apple 2 or comodore pet style software.

>> No.7228505

>>7227712


If you had old gamepro magazines from the era era ans other print media it was hyped for like a month.

It was most likely featured in populer mechanics too.

Too bad the product never got released.

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7229263

>>7227386
I like how the video creator has no intention of ever returning it, dabbing on that old man.
>I'll uhh return it after I'm done making videos on it, honest!

>> No.7229302

>>7229263
lol, im sure he'll return it. Just hope it was agreed upon to hold on to it for a longer period for more videos

>> No.7229768

>>7227386

I remember reading about this thing in Nintendo Power Magazine. Neat.

>> No.7230247

>>7227876
You always amaze me with your encyclopedic knowledge anon

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7230318

>>7227726
Ballouz

>> No.7230365

Pretty amazing video. Not surprised that someone would still have a prototype somewhere, also not surprised that Nintendo has one archived. Nintendo archives everything, which is why the gigaleak is happening. So, it is actually amazing that a copy of the workboy software gets leaked a few weeks after discovering that the rare prototype he received needed a cartridge. Amazing timing. I thought it was a good video, and you even showed off some of the features running on the machine. Cool that Frank leant this out. It was sitting on his bookshelf for decades. I hope this will get into the hands of someone like Ben Heck, so we can see a tear down. It sounds like neat hardware for what it was. The Sharp CPU is a Z80 and 6502 hybrid, it can do decent graphics and sound. GameBoys's cost less than $100.00 where I live. How much were they planning on selling this device?

>> No.7230398

>>7230365
>How much were they planning on selling this device?

Skip some of the video?
Part of the video explains they were just about to release it for $89.99 and then nintendo cut the cost of the gameboy to that same price, so they cancelled the production in fear or it being too pricey

>> No.7230415

>>7227939
>Because Tetris is extremely good,

Tetris was the initial reason why the GameBoy was insanely popular when it launched. Tetris was the original pack-in game. People bought GameBoy's just for Tetris, and not talking about just kids. Nintendo basically wrecked Tengen to get this exclusive for their hamdheld, and it did lead to the popularity of puzzle type games on hand held systems. Sega had Columns on the Gamegear, Atari had Klax on the Lynx.
But in the middle years, the GameBoy was purely a shovelware/ licensed property machine. This was when Nintendo were selling the "Play it Loud" Game Boy series that were like $59.99. Then Pokemon came out at the end of the GameBoy's life and cause a resurgence in the handhelds life. But this time, it was mostly kids, because GameBoys were like less than $50.00. Nintendo basically released the GameBoy Color as a way to capitalize on Pokemon's success and keep the GameBoy line going (through BC) until Project Atlantis/ The GBA arrived.

>> No.7230882

>>7227386
That's a really cool video.

>> No.7231020

>>7230398
>Part of the video explains they were just about to release it for $89.99 and then nintendo cut the cost of the gameboy to that same price, so they cancelled the production in fear or it being too pricey

I did miss that >< ah, makes sense.

>> No.7231026

that's amazing. I'm a sucker for organizers and palmtops and I was fantasizing about workboy since it was mention on AVGN video

>> No.7231050

Anyone know the patent number for the workboy keyboard?

>> No.7231075

>>7227761
no it would have been amazing in 92 kill yourself zoomer

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7231082

>>7227386
My pokemon is evolving

>> No.7231097
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7231097

Steve Wozniak was the GameBoy Tetris champion of Nintendo Power Magazine.

>> No.7231104

>>7227386
I want a gameboy laptop that has a catrige slot instead of floppy dick

>> No.7231112
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7231112

Shame about not getting to see whats inside or possibly dumping whatever rom/data may be in the keyboard.

>> No.7231117

>>7231112
We need to track down the patent. That would let us know if there's a rom inside and can help understand how it functions.

>> No.7231127

>>7231117
Ask the guy from the video to get it from the creator.

>> No.7231129

>>7231075
I'm not a zoomer. Very few parents would have bought this for their kids or themselves. If it actually released it would have been one of those things almost nobody bought and the rest would be turned into dentistry equipment or some shit.

Would you REALLY have wanted to turn your gameboy into a contact book for 90 dollars?

>> No.7231139

A great idea that could only exist in the early 90s. Leveraging the Gameboy for a low cost digital organiser.

>> No.7231225

>>7227386
Who cares?

>> No.7231229

>>7231225
OP BTFO

>> No.7231347

>>7231097
>41 Tetrises at level 9 is 492,000 points
>3 lines is 3000 points
>got 12,000 points from holding down?
Seems suspect to me.

>> No.7231376

>>7231225
>>7231229
cringe city

>> No.7231413

>>7231347
Are you about to call Big Papa Woz a liar bro?

>> No.7231460

>>7231413
I forgot to take into account the points increase at 100 lines, so no.

>> No.7231604

>>7230398
>$90 for a thumbboard
oof

>> No.7231707

>>7231129
>>7231225

okay zoomers

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7232240

Amazing that this thing was found/shown. Glad it went to someone with at least some ethics. not ethot.

Is there anything that we'd miss by not cracking it open? GB dev seems pretty advanced, is the tech/know-how already available on how to make one of these from scratch if someone wanted to?

>> No.7232479

>>7227663
Doom was ported to a pregnancy test...

>> No.7232486

>>7232479
Pregnancy tests have better hardware than the gameboy

>> No.7232856

>>7231112
There's plenty of people who are better qualified to do a teardown. And they will all be eagerly contacting that guy. If you own something rare that's nostalgic to your life story it's fun to share it on the internet. You probably haven't seen the last of the workboy

>> No.7232863

>>7227550
You will never get it, and I am foung a dance right now due to this fact.

>> No.7232873

>>7231082
I’d bet shes playing Tetris.

>> No.7232878

>>7231097
>no mention of the fact he called himself “Mr. T”
This is hands down the funniest fact I’ve learned on /vr/.

>> No.7232880

>>7231139
>$90 keeb
>low cost
You could have made it an organizer and just not required the keyboard...

>> No.7232912

>>7227726
Based. Fuck MetalFagSucks.

>> No.7232914

>>7232912
But I pay his Patreo .

>> No.7234113

>>7227508
Bill herd, one of the designers of the Commodore 128 and 16 has 1 of the 2 remaining Commodore Laptops.

>> No.7234129

>>7227386
History repeats itself.
1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lflIonxA6d8
2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcWqY-9xufU
3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZl00eGJ5M

>> No.7235295

>>7232479
As a passthrough, it didn't actually run Doom by itself.

>> No.7235556

>>7235295
I don't think any of the hardware in the pregnancy tester was used, and they didn't even fit everything inside. It's the complete opposite of doom running on it.

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>>7235556
Yeah, like this thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVN9kIUNxw
Gnarly to look at, but it's not like the NES is doing any real heavy lifting.

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7237917

>>7227835
what is this anon trying to say?

>> No.7237929
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7237929

>>7227663
gameboy had this

PCs btfo

>> No.7237940

>>7235556
They used the little display on it, that was pretty much it, it might have been running on a Pi.

>> No.7237942

>>7237940
wireless display

>> No.7237970

>>7227931
>somehow

This is the detached commentary I expect of someone who's never even seen a DMG. Do you even know where you are right now?

>> No.7237978

>>7229263
Forget returning it, the bigger achievement would be getting the engineer paired up with a GB software/emulation expert (say, shonumi) and working on replicating this hardware and the software that it uses to interface. If that happens then we could replicate not only our own GB keyboard, but more importantly, the possibility of using a KB for homebrew or something else.

>> No.7238037

>>7237970
Right? He doesn't know that the Gameboy was one of the greatest successes in the history of the industry, what was it now, 115+ Million systems sold, and god knows how many software sales to go with that?

It's so very funny to me that he's mystified by how Tetris, one of the most timeless games ever, which can easily appeal to children as well as adults (to the point that countless adults got in trouble at the office for playing Tetris at their computers when they were supposed to be working), sold a lot via a readily available and easily portable system that was cheap.

>>7237978
That'd be really cool, just imagine some slightly modernized derivative of the keyboard using a bunch of easily available off the shelf parts, and maybe the outward shell of the thing could be 3D printed, it'd be a cool DIY kit for homebrewers.