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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: 0.404s | 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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rightbyte ◴[15 Nov 24 13:14 UTC] No.42146601[source]▶
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 Haven't been superseded yet in UX.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.

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ssl-3 ◴[16 Nov 24 03:55 UTC] No.42154020[source]▶
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.

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1. rightbyte ◴[16 Nov 24 15:39 UTC] No.42156925[source]▶
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.
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2. ssl-3 ◴[17 Nov 24 04:45 UTC] No.42162020[source]▶
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.