The full tour
19 pages in this guide
Guide
Proof it runs
Boot testing: recordings, verdicts, self-repair, and how machines earn trust.
Stores and prices
Connecting store accounts, tracking prices, honest sale verdicts, deals and whole series.
Free games
Giveaways from every store, Prime Gaming codes, and how each one gets claimed.
Twitch Drops
The watcher, the plan, claiming, channel points and the calendar.
Proof of acquisition
How every game can be traced to where it legally came from, with real examples.
Keeping the games
Downloading owned games so a copy stays, running them on the TV, installing them on a PC, loans and saves.
The game library
Where the catalogue, metadata, achievements and new files come from.
Machines
The TV box, the Windows stations and the handhelds: how they join, who is playing, what they are made of, and their connection.
Households
People and machines in households, the three admin levels, invites and moves, and firmware by household.
The tray
The Cartmark icon by the clock on a Windows PC: the player, recent games started with their saves first, lent games, testing, Steam-style cards, and links that open Cartmark signed in.
Away from home
A PC at another house, a handheld on the road or a phone away from home, over a private Tailscale link that never touches the internet.
Keeping watch
Subscriptions, alerts, the Needs attention list, Grafana, and what gets played.
Safe by design
Backups, upgrades, scanning, secrets, protections for your saves, and remote access.
Access and rules
Who can see and do what, and the rules Cartmark keeps.
Plan
What's coming
What is live, what is in testing now, and every planned release after it.
What's new
Every release since this guide was first written, in plain words, newest first.
Documents
How a game is tested
The full write-up of the boot test, with a real morning's log.
Cartmark on one page
The short version, made to print or pass along.
Every service it talks to
What each outside service is for, and how Cartmark connects to it.
Look around
A homebrew-only library to walk through, on its way; the gallery meanwhile.
Notice
Trademarks, images and removal requests.
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