icingtomato / ardutosh

Classic Macintosh style desktop environment for Arduboy

Ardutosh

Ardutosh is an OS / desktop environment for the Arduboy miniature game system made for the Arduboy game jam 4 where the theme was 'not a game'.

The style is inspired by the classic Macintosh interface.

Features

• Serial terminal
• Remote app : use your Arduboy as a USB keyboard and mouse when plugged into a PC. Gamepad mapping for USB keyboard for use with games.
• Notes text editor allows you to save text to the EEPROM
• EEPROM hex editor: inspect and edit hex values of your Arduboy’s EEPROM
• Battery voltage monitor
• Internal temperature monitor
• LED tester

Controls: D-pad controls mouse pointer A : toggle on screen keyboard B : mouse click

Build instructions

To compile from source you will need the Arduboy2 library and the Arduino IDE

Open /Source/Ardutosh/Ardutosh.ino in the Arduino IDE and hit build

Flashing other games

Note that there is a bug with the Arduboy bootloader when flashing new games. If flashing a new Arduino sketch after having previously flashing Ardutosh, then first boot the Arduboy into flashlight mode by holding the up button whilst switching on the device.