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Clyde
@gametank.zone
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Software hardware hacky guy.

I like game programming, old cameras, old AV equipment, woodworking, cats, techno remixes of Touhou music, and that one Garfield panel where Jon asks why they call it oven

I made an open source console:
https://gametank.zone
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Clyde @gametank.zone · Jan 11
The GameTank is a project to build an open source console (done) and an ecosystem around it (in progress)

The console itself is implemented as a homebrew 6502-based hobby computer that follows the ergonomic conventions of an 8-bit era console.

i.e. cartridges, custom gamepads, analog AV output
gametank.zone
Why I made the GameTank and where it's going next
YouTube video by GameTank
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
gametank.zone
anybody know where i can get like hundreds of these cheaply sent to a contract manufacturer in croatia?
image of a bundled 9-pin game controller cable with an over-molded connector on one end and bare wires on the other, the wire end also has a rubber strain relief boot
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
gametank.zone
it's like how the button to make pdfs is a toaster
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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assomo5.bsky.social
Après l'Agon Console8 il y a deux ans, voici une nouvelle tentative de console 8-bit souhaitant attirer les développeurs, la @gametank.zone mag.mo5.com/276857/gamet...
GameTank, une nouvelle console 8-bit open source
En parallèle de la scène homebrew qui crée des jeux inédits pour nos vieilles machines, certains passionnés poussent le concept jusqu’à imaginer de nouveaux hardware typés rétro (...)
mag.mo5.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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rust.nyc
Announcing our Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025!

Join Devin Brite to create games for the GameTank, an open source 8-bit console. Bring your laptop, build your own game (like Pong) in #RustLang, and play it together!

Register now: rust.nyc/unconf
Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Workshop: Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the GameTank as an open source 8 bit game console based on the 6502 developed by Clyde Schaffer. Devin Brite put Rust on it. The workshop invites participants to bring their laptop to make their own video game (like Pong) in Rust and maybe even play it together. A circular photo shows Devin wearing sunglasses and a green t-shirt with a Game Boy design. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
gametank.zone
Last night's debugging got a bit spaghetti
A game cartridge PCB with yellow wires soldered to the legs of one of its chips. The wires are not well organized. Text on the cartridge says "2MB Flash Cartridge v2" and "Clyde Shaffer August 2024"
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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retrododo.bsky.social
Meet the GameTank 👇

#RetroGaming
It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console
Yes, you read that right. In a world of cloud streaming and teraflops, a gamer from New York is striving to release their own 8-bit home console with its own gaming infrastructure. Meet the GameTank, ...
retrododo.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
gametank.zone
straight outta ideas
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
gametank.zone
All done at PRGE, big thanks to everybody that came to play and chat at the #GameTank booth!
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
it's not FOR us
edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
gametank.zone
PRGE25 is open! Come visit the #GameTank at booth 619
Banner that says Gametank "8-Bit homebrew hardware" over a smiling man seated at a table between two computer monitors and game consoles. Spread across the desk is a pile of business cards.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
gametank.zone
Reminder that the GameTank will be at Portland Retro Gaming Expo this weekend! Come say hi at booth 619
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
gametank.zone
The children yearn for number go up... the theme of the jam will be Clicker! a.k.a. incremental games
GameTank Game Jam #5
A game jam from 2025-10-11 to 2025-10-18 hosted by Clyde. October 2025 GameTank Game Jam Theme:
itch.io
October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
gametank.zone
itch.io/jam/gametank...

Submit to this jam and I'll demo it on real GameTanks at Portland Retro Gaming Expo
Man holding cat next to a whiteboard which has a drawing of a GameTank game console next to the crowd supply logo Text on the whiteboard says: gametank.zone/crowdsupply Also [Game jam October 10-17] [Portland Retro Gaming Expo]
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Oops forgot to tag @crowdsupply.bsky.social 😬
gametank.zone Clyde @gametank.zone · Sep 27
Crowd Supply pre-campaign page for the #GameTank is up! Subscribe for updates to find out when you can order your very own!!! :D
GameTank
An original 8-bit game console
www.crowdsupply.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
gametank.zone
for a slide in my upcoming @jawncon.bsky.social talk about the #gametank
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
gametank.zone
Been tweaking this boss all week, finally have him in what feels like a good difficulty balance where everything is ultimately dodge-able. Should probably expose it to more playtesters though!
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #gametank
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
gametank.zone
remember when a computer was a thing that belonged to you and its capabilities weren't just a thing you were renting from a corp somewhere?
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
gametank.zone
no hit detection either direction yet, here's boss number two's moves tho
September 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
gametank.zone
Crowd Supply pre-campaign page for the #GameTank is up! Subscribe for updates to find out when you can order your very own!!! :D
GameTank
An original 8-bit game console
www.crowdsupply.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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kim-6502.bsky.social
Happy 50th Birthday, 6502!
September 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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kim-6502.bsky.social
The 6502 is fifty!
Stack of 6502 programming books
September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
gametank.zone
gamedev is when the simplest of screenshots represent the most major technical victories

(previously the region labled "switchgate" would've only been possible as 13 distinct entities, out of 16 runtime slots)
screenshot from tiled level editor. a bridge with a segmented portion in the middle and a brown cave wall in the background. the middle of the bridge has a red rectangle overlay labeled "switchgate". a pedestal near the bridge has a red point object overlay labeled "wallswitch"
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
gametank.zone
sure to hell with it lets add another table to the level data for which three levels will actually have entries

i want to make this drawbridge work that badly
September 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
gametank.zone
the "Class" property on objects in Tiled is short for "Equivalence Class" right? right???
September 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM