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The '''[[wikipedia:Atari Lynx|Atari Lynx]]''' was a handheld console released by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] in 1989. Notably, it was the world's first handheld system that used a color LCD screen, as well as having fairly advanced graphics for the time.
 
The '''[[wikipedia:Atari Lynx|Atari Lynx]]''' was a handheld console released by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] in 1989. Notably, it was the world's first handheld system that used a color LCD screen, as well as having fairly advanced graphics for the time.
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Unlike contemporaneous machines its architecture is based upon a frame buffer and a scaling blitter, providing both 2d sprite and background scaling and hardware support for lines and filled triangles. Because it has no inherent concept of a tile map or any sprite-specific hardware, the drawing budget is per frame rather than per line; there is no enforced limit in terms of number of sprites or sprites per line other than that implied by the amount of drawing that can be achieved within an acceptable frame rate.
  
 
==Emulators==
 
==Emulators==

Revision as of 17:57, 9 August 2018

Atari Lynx
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Developer Atari
Type Handheld game console
Generation Fourth generation
Release date 1989
Discontinued 1995
Emulated

The Atari Lynx was a handheld console released by Atari in 1989. Notably, it was the world's first handheld system that used a color LCD screen, as well as having fairly advanced graphics for the time.

Unlike contemporaneous machines its architecture is based upon a frame buffer and a scaling blitter, providing both 2d sprite and background scaling and hardware support for lines and filled triangles. Because it has no inherent concept of a tile map or any sprite-specific hardware, the drawing budget is per frame rather than per line; there is no enforced limit in terms of number of sprites or sprites per line other than that implied by the amount of drawing that can be achieved within an acceptable frame rate.

Emulators

Name Operating System(s) Latest Version Active Libretro Core Recommended
PC
Mednafen Multi-platform 1.32.0-UNSTABLE
MAME Multi-platform 0.264
Handy Windows 0.95
0.971
OpenEmu macOS 2.0.6.1
Consoles
Handypsp PlayStation Portable 0.95.1
HandyVITA PlayStation Vita Henkaku
WiiHandy Wii 0.4

Comparison

Mednafen
Based upon Handy, but unlike other forked cores, its emulation only improves upon the original.
Handy
Hasn't been updated since 2007. Only included here for reference.


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Consoles: Atari 2600Atari 5200Atari 7800Atari XEGSAtari JaguarAtari VCS
Handhelds: Atari Lynx
Computers: Atari 8-bitAtari ST