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Oh hell yeah. I ran Rockbox on my Sansa Fuze from the ages of 14-18 because my parents restricted my computer time. There were tons of games on that thing. I sp
by lwb 7y ago
Oh hell yeah. I ran Rockbox on my Sansa Fuze from the ages of 14-18 because my parents restricted my computer time. There were tons of games on that thing. I spent hundreds of hours playing Doom and Gameboy/Gameboy Color games on road trips and in my bedroom. So much so that I ground down the middle button with my thumb to the point where it stopped working... did I mention how hard it is to play Doom on a 2.5 inch screen?
Rockbox is a really, really cool project, and it's unfortunate that the age of MP3 players is basically over. I guess the spirit sort of lives on in the Android ecosystem but there was something so incredible about getting half of the functionality on a device a tenth as powerful.
- derefr 7y ago> I guess the spirit sort of lives on in the Android ecosystem but there was something so incredible about getting half of the functionality on a device a tenth as powerful. I feel like the true successor to that ecosystem is the Chinese "emulation portables" market. I have a BittBoy (PocketGo), and it's a perfect "hobbyist homebrew" platform; it's got a nice screen, takes SDXC cards, and has "enough" RAM to have a pixel-addressable framebuffer; but otherwise it's just slightly more powerful than a Nintendo DS, and that "enough" RAM is still only 32MB (and it's probably taking up some of that memory running Linux, unless you've compiled your own unikernel for it.) So it's not like you can get away with un-optimized code.
- cnasc 7y agoI feel like those are an evolution of devices like the GP2X. Interestingly, by virtue of being vastly more "hacker-friendly" than iPods, many things that are _really_ cool (like a Quake port) feel kind of mundane on those. I think what lwb means is how cool it is to get something running on a device you're technically not supposed to do that to.