New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
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New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
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#2I think something like this is so cool: the relative ease in which Linux can be ported to something combined with a new application for a retro console. His post sums it up.
"But why... Most importantly, because I can."
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#3Waiting for the Vulkan backend and the dolphin port.
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#4How do these sort of ports for niche systems get made?
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#5> "But why", I hear from the back. Having Linux available makes it easier to port emulators and fb or console games.
> Most importantly, because I can.
Good. All I can say is at least it is something different to what I keep seeing on HN. (React, Rust, Kubernetes, JAMstack, JavaScript, etc.)
Probably present this somewhere in a conference (CCC, FOSDEM, etc). Who knows who could be looking at this.
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#6I never had a relationship with the N64. After the Super Nintendo I was deep into computers and programming. The place I used to go to rent video games also started to rent CD ROMS. I went down there one time to rent a CD ROM and saw the N64. Back then video games stores also worked as an arcade, where you could play a system for 30 minutes paying a small fee. So I decided to try this new system, the N64. The game I choose was Mario 64, or course. I did not know where to go, how to play, what my goals were... I remember back then feeling that I outgrew video games. This was around the year 2000. Wasn't until 2009 that I decided to play with video games again, I bought a used xbox 360 from a friend. I had played Mario Paper 64, but on an emulator, and way after the game was released. Cool project thought, thanks for sharing.
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#7Is it possible to use the texture memory/cache (including the Expansion Pak) as additional (albeit limited) system RAM? If so, is that the case here?
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#8> "But why", I hear from the back. Having Linux available makes it easier to port emulators and fb or console games. > Most importantly, because I can. Good. All I can say is at least it is something different to what I keep seeing on HN. (React, Rust, Kubernetes, JAMstack, JavaScript, etc.) Probably present this somewhere in a conference (CCC, FOSDEM, etc). Who knows who could be looking at this.
Yes, I love seeing this stuff over the standard JavaScript lib of the month.
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#9This, plus the recently announced PlayStation 5 gamepad driver support for Linux. Dreaming is free.
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#10Is it possible to use the texture memory/cache (including the Expansion Pak) as additional (albeit limited) system RAM? If so, is that the case here?
Expansion Pak is regular RAM both to this and the normal games.
The texture memory would be difficult to use as RAM though since it's not directly addressable.