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Kind of reminds me of Lunix http://www.lunix.c64.org/ http://www.lunix.c64.org/ Obviously not the same thing, it's not "real" Linux, but a similar goal of gett
by tombert 2y ago
Kind of reminds me of Lunix http://www.lunix.c64.org/ http://www.lunix.c64.org/
Obviously not the same thing, it's not "real" Linux, but a similar goal of getting "something like Unix on hardware that has no business running it".
I have mad respect for these kinds of projects. Writing software on powerful hardware is easy, that's what I do for a living, but people squeezing the life out of the NES and C64 are on another level of intelligence and dedication that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to match.
- Tiberium 2y agoThat's actually exactly what the author of NES86 did at first: he ported Lunix to the NES - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqN_FixG0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqN_FixG0M (repo https://github.com/decrazyo/lng-fds https://github.com/decrazyo/lng-fds). But then he received a lot of comments saying that it's not real Linux, so he made NES86 to run ELKS and made another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OooHTDMUSGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OooHTDMUSGY. It's a bit funny since ELKS does not consider itself Linux anymore, just a "Linux-like OS", so maybe we'll have a third iteration of this project eventually ;)
- tombert 2y agoYou know, I actually saw that video when it was new, didn't realize it was the same dude! It's extremely cool stuff, it doesn't feel like even an approximation of Unix should be possible on the NES.
- Y_Y 2y agoTotally. I will only accept Genuine Linux™. I propose this slacker get at least uClinux[0] running before I grant my approval. (Please note the sarcasm in the above comment.) [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181113230737/http://www.uclinux.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181113230737/http://www.uclinu...