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Not sure where new MIPS CPUs are used nowadays, but i do have a handheld[0] that uses a MIPS-based CPU (Ingenic JZ4770) at 1GHz with 512MB of RAM and a 3D accel
by badsectoracula 5y ago
Not sure where new MIPS CPUs are used nowadays, but i do have a handheld[0] that uses a MIPS-based CPU (Ingenic JZ4770) at 1GHz with 512MB of RAM and a 3D accelerator using an open source Linux-based OS. This is from 2013-2014 but there have been some more recent clones, like the RG350 series by Anbernic[2] (which runs the same OS and software).
Though it is basically just a Linux system, nothing special about it aside from the instruction set. When i ported a DOS game i made some time ago to it[3] all i did was install Debian and Free Pascal on a MIPS QEMU system, make sure it compiles with SDL and package the binary in the package format its launcher uses (OPK, which IIRC is essentially a squashfs image).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCW_Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCW_Zero
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenic_Semiconductor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenic_Semiconductor
[2] https://retrododo.com/rg350/ https://retrododo.com/rg350/
[3] https://i.imgur.com/coFBWXx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/coFBWXx.jpg