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News > Java on GBA

#3803 - SimonB - Sun Mar 09, 2003 3:32 pm

aJile Systems Inc. (http://www.ajile.com/), a company founded by the developers of the first direct execution Java? microprocessor, has created the world's first game development kit to bring Java MIDP technology to millions of Nintendo?'s Game Boy? Advance players. aJile's JAMiD? game development kit is also the first platform to use Sun's latest MIDP 2.0 technology, which offers advanced audio and graphics features to Java mobile game developers. .

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The key component of the JAMiD kit is the Java game cartridge, which plugs into the external card slot on any Game Boy? Advance or Game Boy? Advance SP, bringing Java capabilities to the world's most popular mobile game player. The JAMiD cartridge will allow users to run MIDP games while listening to MP3 music, both of which can be downloaded from dozens of Internet sites.

The JAMiD cartridge includes aJile's high-performance direct execution aJ-100 Java microprocessor, an MP3 audio player, and all of the necessary memory and interface hardware to download and run MIDP- compatible games and MP3 audio. aJile is selling the JAMiD as a complete development kit with software tools that enable game developers to rapidly create exciting MIDP game titles for Game Boy? handhelds.

Read the full press release here!
And aJile Systems website can be found here...

#3817 - siaspete - Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:14 pm

That's pretty neat. It's a shame you need extra hardware to do it, but neat all the same.

#4012 - jenswa - Sat Mar 15, 2003 8:56 pm

Looks like a cool gadget, but isn't the hardware of the gba used
for anything at all?

I mean is it just displaying and processing sound from the 'java processor'
or is the gba processor involved in processing java codes?
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