Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

5 comments

• HerbManic 1 hour 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.
• walrus01 58 minutes ago
  If this runs on a megadrive (Genesis), would this also boot on a Sega Nomad, the portable version of a genesis?
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  • mikepavone 32 minutes ago
    It should. There are some small differences between the Nomad and a normal Gen/MD, but nothing that should impact something like this
• aussieguy1234 2 hours ago
  It runs Doom, now it runs Linux
• bitwize 2 hours 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 16 hours ago
  Original title: It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
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  • dang 3 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 15 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 12 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 3 hours ago
        I guess parent is pedantic about Megadrive instead of Mega Drive
  • nommuenjoyer 10 hours ago
    And it really is on a MegaDrive as I only tested this stuff on a Japanese MegaDrive.