Essentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc.

Man, scummvm has come a long way since I used it to play Sam and max on my GP32X

Neat! TIL that can work.

ID games of course (Keen/Wolf3d/Doom), Sim City series. Raptor, Warcraft I&II, LucasArts games.

Have you tried corsix th? It lets you play the original theme hospital on modern systems.

https://corsixth.com/

How do they hook up? My Gravis doesn’t have a passthough IIRC, so I think you can only hook up,one.

I’d love to try this out (on real hardware), but I haven’t felt the need to spend for a flashcart yet, and I’ll be damned if I spend $75 on a McDonald’s ad.

My cousin had one. I had a GameBoy. I was jealous at first, but I realized I had Zelda and the batteries would last an entire car trip. Being into retrogames, I’d love one, but I feel like as a Kid I got the better deal TBH.