One of the most anticipated independent gadget late 2021 was the Pocket from Analogue or better known as Analogue Pocket which is a device to legitimately play original Gameboy and Gameboy Color games (regardless the Nintendo’s evilly attempts to illegal emulation scope includes this kind of hardware).

While shipping is not done for pre-orders and first official orders, Analogue hasn’t stopped there and knows that the hardware for the Pocket needs improvements.

So enters Analogue Pocket OS v1.1, which will be released as a BETA (testing a candidate release and the user should acknowledge that there are known and unknown issues or errors).

With Pocket OS 1.1, Analogue will be introducing a huge historical archive about retro games called Library and an improved ROM management that includes capture and load save states as well as capture screenshots functionality called Memories.

The best of the update in my opinion is the official first usage of the secondary field-programmable gate array or simply FPGA so developers can develop and port their own cores, I/O and scalers.

There is no clear date one when the BETA will ends meaning the massive availability of Pocket OS v1.1, but be aware that if your are not immediately interested on the mentioned functionality and/or you will not have the tolerance/patience on dealing with known/unknown issues, the best thing is not to participate on the BETA. 

Analogue is known for his other electronic and great repurposing of FPGA machines that lets you play legacy hardware including Nintendo and Sega’s Game Gear.