• Dkarma@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You read my mind. That was my first question. Microcontroller? C? Ok yeah it can run doom for sure. But e ink? It’d look terrible…

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        1 year ago

        You’d be surprised. Drawing 1bpp and dithering, some e-readers could hit 20 or 30 Hz on PS1 games. Not ideal - but high-res and responsive. The flickery second-long updates are just fighting ghosting and building up multiple bitplanes.

        On the other hand it has basically zero advantages over LCD at that speed. Even low-power applications have been undercut by memory LCDs.