Keyboard: yes, but maybe you only want to play joystick games
Display: true, but this may very well be an HD-TV !
Other aspect is that you have to arrange for casing and for power, but then again you can throw in your personal touch !
Wim.
Want to run VICE on a very small device.
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Yes, the question of "a very small device" does not necessarily equate to "portable" either. 
Putting costs aside for a moment, I think the Pandora solution (for which I do not own) to be versatile to the extreme on all fronts! And thanks for those pictures, too.
Wanting the same "small device" myself, but not having any portable needs, I built my arcade-in-a-box solution with UME, Stella, VICE, and UAE using an inexpensive Intel ATOM D525 which I luckily caught on sale for $69 last year.
Solutions like the ones mentioned (already fully integrated or ones that you can build) will peel you away from the original hardware. I prefer to have both, honestly, because the originals have strong nostalgic value with "perfect escapes" back to that time: loading off of magnetic media (or cheating that crappy part with uIEC/SD or 1541-U2), using a bat-handled joystick or paddle, running it off of a phosphor display with its flicker, color bleed, and correct aspect ratio. And having the machines and programs preserved on modern hardware provides those assurances of lasting value to these past treasures.
Putting costs aside for a moment, I think the Pandora solution (for which I do not own) to be versatile to the extreme on all fronts! And thanks for those pictures, too.
Wanting the same "small device" myself, but not having any portable needs, I built my arcade-in-a-box solution with UME, Stella, VICE, and UAE using an inexpensive Intel ATOM D525 which I luckily caught on sale for $69 last year.
Solutions like the ones mentioned (already fully integrated or ones that you can build) will peel you away from the original hardware. I prefer to have both, honestly, because the originals have strong nostalgic value with "perfect escapes" back to that time: loading off of magnetic media (or cheating that crappy part with uIEC/SD or 1541-U2), using a bat-handled joystick or paddle, running it off of a phosphor display with its flicker, color bleed, and correct aspect ratio. And having the machines and programs preserved on modern hardware provides those assurances of lasting value to these past treasures.
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