Because the point of my exercise is to develop an indigenous core of hardware-level programmers. Bare metal is where the speed comes from, and bare metal is where the money is. Game building is secondary, besides, using a library would be counter-productive, as we would be building our own indigenous libraries anyway, for 2D games a la Capcom and SNK. For now, I feel that using toy systems like these will help gauge just where we in Jamaica re in terms of bare metal systems programming.
Now, if we have people who are nice with more modern instruction sets, I would be more than glad to set up some Assembly lessons. We can then
move on to more...interesting systems.. However, from what I have seen, both on this forum and in real life, Jmaiacans are more into Web Programming and System Administration - uninteresting stuff.
In other words, this is a low level programming club. So if you have better things to do than make silly comments about pictures and posters, and want to be recognized for something other than running and singing, I will be waiting.