The Lynx was Atari's entry into the handheld computer game market, soon after the release of the Gameboy and before the release of Sega's Game Gear. It sported some great conversions of Atari's classic games and had far superior graphics to either of the other hand helds. It even had a strange handling system whereby the controls could be used either way up, or even controlled by the set of buttons at either end of the console, in order that the screen could be used in landscape rather than portrait mode.
Handy was originally written in C++ for the PC under Windows and has been ported to Linux. Following a period of inactivity by the author the emulation development was officially halted and the source code to version 0.40 was released to the public. The author has since taken up the reigns again and has continued to develop handy for Windows upto version 0.60. Handy is currently the best Lynx emulator available by a long way, and to my knowledge, the only one on which commercial games are playable. David McEwen has begun porting Handy to the Acorn and is making good progress, at the time of writing, we're awaiting a public release in the next week or two. In the meantime, here are a few pictures of Handy working on the Acorn, courtesy of Michael Koenig (beta tester).
Batman Returns
Raiden (at this stage the code was not
yet written to change the orientation
of the emulated Lynx)
David McEwen's
preview page (more pictures of Handy)
David McEwen's homepage
Official Handy homepage
sysROM (for the Lynx System ROM needed
for the emulator)