Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

4 comments

• HerbManic 7 minutes ago
  Very cool to see, so pointless it just had to be done.

  I was wondering how it was squeezed into 64KB of RAM but it uses the 4MB on the Everdrive cart. With that it makes sense, considering Linux can run on an N64 with 4MB of RAM.
• aussieguy1234 33 minutes ago
  It runs Doom, now it runs Linux
• bitwize 1 hour ago
  Absolutely nuts and squirrels.

  Then again, I did know that the Mega Drive's CPU loadout (68000 and Z80) is the same as the first Unix machine I ever used (a TRS-80 Model 16), so running some form of Unix on it was therefore, theoretically, possible...
• HardwareLust 15 hours ago
  Original title: It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
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  • dang 2 hours ago
    It's a cool project! but best to use the original title and original source - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

    I've changed the title and URL to match https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd and put the other URL in the toptext so people can look at it too.
  • msephton 13 hours ago
    Really odd decision for it to be changed away from this original title.

    And if I'm being pedantic (and I am) it's Sega Mega Drive.

    Repo, which says Sega MegaDrive, is at: https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd

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    • dormento 11 hours ago
      (Disclaimer: I'm partial to "Mega Drive" myself.)

      Wikipedia has this

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif

      blue = Mega Drive, red = Genesis

      Linked here:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vid...

      (didn't find the sales numbers, for those wondering. Sorry!)

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      • croes 1 hour ago
        I guess parent is pedantic about Megadrive instead of Mega Drive
  • nommuenjoyer 8 hours ago
    And it really is on a MegaDrive as I only tested this stuff on a Japanese MegaDrive.