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Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

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163 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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anthk ◴[15 Nov 24 09:13 UTC] No.42145179[source]▶
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.

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1. znpy ◴[15 Nov 24 10:13 UTC] No.42145503[source]▶
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.

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2. trollied ◴[15 Nov 24 12:25 UTC] No.42146277[source]▶
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