Stonevakt — a games console that plays cartridges you own

A games console that plays cartridges you own.

I'm building a small console for indie games. The games come on carts you buy, lend and sell. No store, no account, no ads.

It's one person, part-time, with my own money. There's nothing to buy and there may never be. The list is how I find out whether anyone wants it.

I'll write when there's something real: a prototype, real numbers, a working cart. Not before.

Stone placed

Where it's up to

Half of it works. The rest doesn't exist.

Its own operating system, booting straight into a launcher on a bench machine. No desktop, controller only.
A game running against a frozen set of libraries, still running after the system updates underneath it.
A cart going in, the game installing and playing. Cart out, the game's gone.
A deliberately broken update reverting itself, with nobody at the keyboard.

An enclosure. The bench machine is a desktop PC in the open.
A real cartridge or its connector. Today it's a USB stick in a printed shell.
A manufacturer, a catalogue, or a single game anyone has agreed to put on a cart.
Any money. Nothing raised, nothing borrowed, no investors.

Stewart · building Stonevakt