The Odroid-Go Ultra is a handheld game system released by Hardkernel , a Korean maker of single-board computers. It is basically a very powerful ARMv8 computer with Ubuntu 20.04.4 Linux (Aarch64) as the OS and EmulationStation as the frontend plus many different emulators.

Many people might be inclined to regard the OGU purely as a portable game emulation device. I see it in a slightly different way because it reminds me of the GP32 made by Gamepark (also a Korean company) in the early-mid 2000s. I have very fond memories of the GP32 because there was a nice little homebrew programming scene which I was part of. I'd love to see a similar scene to emerge for the Odroid-Go Ultra.

SDL2 as an SDK would be an obvious and accessible choice. Luckily, it has been ported by the Odroid forum member JonnyonFlame . I picked up his port and created an easy-to-use SDL2 SDK package for the OGU. It can be used to compile SDL2 applications on the device itself as well as to cross-compile them on an Ubuntu Linux PC.

You can find the SDL2-ogu project repository on GitHub:

https://www.codeberg.org/chn/SDL2-ogu/

Or just download the pre-compiled package:

SDL2-ogu_2.0.22_20221230.tar.gz (3.03MB)

Here's the project website: SDL2-ogu

(But wait! There's more..)

Hi folks!

After some time without an Internet presence, here's my new webpage. There's mainly old/legacy stuff here, but also a few new things:

• Some Music. For now, there's only the song "Nuance" , but I've been making music all the time, collecting dust on my harddisk. Hopefully I can upload some of it in the time to come.
• RadarVolumeExplorer , a 3D visualization software of radar data. Made for educational purposes
• While I didn't update libmodplay (my MOD/XM/S3M playing library), I used it to create a plugin for foobar2000 , my favourite music player.