Atari Lynx

Overview

Introduced in 1989 by Atari, the Atari Lynx was a portable system. Its platform tag is atarilynx for proper filtering.

Technical specifications

• CPU: Suwa Seikosha 65C02-based custom chip running at 16 MHz, supplemented with custom GPU hardware.
• Memory: 64 KB RAM and 64 KB ROM built into the cartridges with support for bank switching.
• Display: 160×102 active area (160×102) color LCD with 4,096 colors and hardware scaling/rotation built into the custom Lynx chips.
• Sound: 4-channel 8-bit DAC with stereo sample playback and hardware mixing.

Supported ROM extensions

lnx, lyx, o, zip, 7z

Emulators

• handy (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_HANDY
• mednafen_lynx (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_BEETLE_LYNX
• mednafen (mednafen) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_MEDNAFEN

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Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml