Very cool to see, so pointless it just had to be done.
I was wondering how it was squeezed into 64KB of RAM but it uses the 4MB on the Everdrive cart. With that it makes sense, considering Linux can run on an N64 with 4MB of RAM.
Then again, I did know that the Mega Drive's CPU loadout (68000 and Z80) is the same as the first Unix machine I ever used (a TRS-80 Model 16), so running some form of Unix on it was therefore, theoretically, possible...
Very cool to see, so pointless it just had to be done.
I was wondering how it was squeezed into 64KB of RAM but it uses the 4MB on the Everdrive cart. With that it makes sense, considering Linux can run on an N64 with 4MB of RAM.
It runs Doom, now it runs Linux
Absolutely nuts and squirrels.
Then again, I did know that the Mega Drive's CPU loadout (68000 and Z80) is the same as the first Unix machine I ever used (a TRS-80 Model 16), so running some form of Unix on it was therefore, theoretically, possible...
Original title: It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
It's a cool project! but best to use the original title and original source - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I've changed the title and URL to match https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd and put the other URL in the toptext so people can look at it too.
Really odd decision for it to be changed away from this original title.
And if I'm being pedantic (and I am) it's Sega Mega Drive.
Repo, which says Sega MegaDrive, is at: https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd
(Disclaimer: I'm partial to "Mega Drive" myself.)
Wikipedia has this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif
blue = Mega Drive, red = Genesis
Linked here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vid...
(didn't find the sales numbers, for those wondering. Sorry!)
I guess parent is pedantic about Megadrive instead of Mega Drive
And it really is on a MegaDrive as I only tested this stuff on a Japanese MegaDrive.