Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

The XBOX would do it better; but sadly current ports are abandoned.

An XBOX with 128MB of RAM would run Fluxbox or whatever light env with ease, and with Dillo and a PSP user agent you could even post into HN. Gemini and Gopher would do it fine, even with clients written in TCL/Tk. It would be a fine backup PC for either thinkering or rescueing.

With ZRAM you could almost mimic a 192MB of RAM based device, good for maybe a browser like Seamonkey/IceApe if it could be built without SSE2.

oh the days of xbox-linux, the cromwell bios and stuff.

I remember some guy soldering additional memory as well. Can't recall if it was 64 to 128mb or 128 to 256mb.

This dude does CPU and RAM upgrades: https://computerbooter.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showp...

He also streams the process live on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPWknjnQNOwSD15nNh4rhLg

XBMC was so good at the time. Haven't been superseded yet in UX. Locate the movie in some network folder and go.

XBMC4Xbox seems to be a spinoff but I guess it can't play HD.

Edit: And it seemed to have been running the original Xbox win32 interface, not Linux.

XBMC was stunningly amazing at the time.

It lives on today as Kodi, including the GUI hacks, the weird flaky add-ons, browsing file shares on the LAN, and the strange piracy-adjacent community.

It's all there, and on all kinds of devices -- just not on OG Xbox hardware.

Ye I'm thinking about trying that one. I need to setup a Linux box as media center and game emulator for the TV to replace the crappy 'smart TV' OS.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 for all of that stuff, that I got back before things turned weird(er) in the small computer space.