design your own video game console ebook

Design Your Own Video Game Console

A Beginner's Guide to Video Game Console and Embedded System Design, Development, and Programming.

Publisher

Nurve Networks LLC

Author

Andre' LaMothe

Editor/Technical Reviewer

Alex Varanese

Printing

0001

ISBN

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