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Now that we have two consoles to play our custom retro Arcade Games I will begin reviewing them. These are both running "F 401" processors which I will talk about later. I do not have proper board diagrams, pinouts or other tech. data sheets for these boards but the microprocessor is well known. I will say at the beginning of this comparison that I am not an electrical engineer nor a computer programmer/developer so my perspective and notes are only from the point of view of a MakeCode "consumer" and volunteer doing meet-ups with students/parents/teachers. There are more consoles in the works from other designers (Adafruit in particular). The 2 boards here have jacdac ports so we can connect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HZmOtk9No

Just now started reading the Computer Science lessons for students and teachers at the Microsoft Makecode for Arcade web site. There appear to be 3 CS chapters which introduce us to some basic concepts. Here is an example of editing in JavaScript from chapter #3 "functions". If you backspace your cursor on the URL from this link to get to /courses/ then you will have the entire CS course page: https://arcade.makecode.com/courses/csintro3/functions/intro

link to The Dungeon of the Coin: https://makecode.com/_Jf5YD151wRar

controls: wasd/arrow keys=move, space while moving=shoot, charge space to shoot a stronger shot, b=nothing

Our friend, Joey Wunderlich , has written an extension to enable multiple button presses to score points on the Arcade game so I uploaded his program to a BPA to demonstrate the game in action on a battery powered console. I’m not quick enough to score many points but it’s a fun game anyway. The extension is in ‘controller’ I think. https://youtu.be/Vw3eiL0-YUs

This a link to John Park's MakeCode Minute Playlist on the Adafruit YouTube Channel. He talks about and teaches MakeCode for CPX and MakeCode Arcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhDmKORX_DE&list=PLjF7R1fz_OOU5gFO10qxLlbtN0YzZTyvk&index=1

An American made console for playing the retro Arcade game coded with MakeCode, simple block coding (Javascript) . I will do an unboxing video soon on this great new piece of hardware: https://youtu.be/SF2ZMqbgCbE