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This makes me wonder, I know Linux can run on some iPods, but did anybody ever run homebrew apps or games on the native iPod OS?
by emptyparadise 6y ago
This makes me wonder, I know Linux can run on some iPods, but did anybody ever run homebrew apps or games on the native iPod OS?
- pronoiac 6y agoI remembered there were third-party games available on the iPod, but checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_game , it doesn't look like an SDK ever made it to the public.
- emptyparadise 6y agoYeah, I'm amazed that there aren't any homebrew ones.
- netsharc 6y agoI would imagine the "OS" doesn't have a lot of graphical routines, just to draw text/menues, scroll bar (to indicate song progress) and some library to display images (for album covers). And that it boots straight into this player app, and it has no idea of how to load other apps...
- tantalor 6y agohttp://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.04/SnowDay/index.html http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.04/Sn...
- emptyparadise 6y agoThis is an April Fools article.
- newsbinator 6y agoI used to run this on my iPod happily: https://www.rockbox.org https://www.rockbox.org
- emptyparadise 6y agoThat's an entirely different OS and it's seriously cool. But I really do wonder why it seems like no homebrew was attempted on the original OS.