New software for machines the industry finished with.
Every exhibit runs today's Pocket stack on the original hardware — as a live JavaScript guest or a compiled cartridge — and every port ships with an engineering story. The museum is how the runtime keeps its portability honest.
- machines in the collection
- 14
- registered Guest targets
- 5
- Pocket Vapor targets
- 5
- years of hardware
- 1983–2025
The collection
oldest machine first
1983AOTNES
A 6502, 2 KB of RAM, and a reactive Vue program in a 40 KB cartridge.
1989AOTGame Boy
Reactive Vue on an 8-bit SM83 at 4 MHz, in a 32 KB cart.
2001AOTGame Boy Advance
A Vue component compiled to a 9.1 KB cartridge. No JavaScript engine on board.
2004GuestSony PSP
The founding machine. Games, YouTube, Figma and DevTools at a locked 60 fps.
2007GuestiPhone 2G
A UIKit host with no Objective-C. Zero shaders on the MBX Lite. 59.99 fps.
2009GuestMeizu M8
From message pump to multitouch on Windows CE. A 480×720 BGRA framebuffer over GDI.
2011GuestNokia E7
Cover-flow launcher and a 3D FPS on Symbian Belle. The first phone family.
2011GuestiPhone 4S
The retained UI through OpenGL ES 1.1 at Retina density, on iOS 6.1.3.
2011GuestPS Vita
Twice the pixels, zero forks. The same bundles, byte-exact goldens at density 2.
2015GuestiPod touch 6
A transactional native host on a 320×568 surface, 60 Hz from a run-loop timer.
2019AOTESP32 MeowBit
The fourth Pocket Vapor target, verified on the physical board over UART.
2022AOTPlaydate
The crank as a hardware-neutral relative axis. The fifth Pocket Vapor target.
2023GuestPocketBook
Animated partial refresh on a screen that loves stillness. The first e-ink surface.
2025NativeESP32-P4
Rendered by damage: an RGB565 raster path and a PPA hardware backend at 1280×720. QuickJS in 304 KB.
The workbench
not exhibits — the bench they were built onDevelopment and verification hosts. They are where the goldens run, where new modules land first, and where the desktop form factors live. Listed for completeness; none of them is a museum piece.
