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GameBoy Web Server

Posted by michael on from the why-ask-why dept.

Huma79 writes "Adrian O'Grady has successfully gotten TCP/IP and PPP working on his handheld Gameboy Advance for a web server. Pictures of the server running and a telnet session to it can be found at fivemouse.com."

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  1. GBA.battle.net by Vardamir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd like to see a program written for the Gamecube and/or PC(this includes macs, etc.) that allows you to connect your gameboy advance (for the gamecube there is already the GCN-GBA link) and play with other GBA players over the internet (when the NIC for the Gamebue is available) as if GBA's were directly linked.

    Right now, I'm mainly thinking about playing Golden Sun against other people.

  2. *sigh* by beowulf_26 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone else hear the rumble of Nintendo closing in on this poor chap? I think it's sad when I read something like this and I first think "Oh cool. That's really smart, useless but cool." and then I cringe thinking about people like him getting squashed in litigation. I got five bucks that says he gets a cease and desist letter...

    Heh, that or I've been successfully turned to /. pessimism. You decide.

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    --I hate big sigs.
  3. Re:People have too much time on their hands by ryants · · Score: 5, Interesting
    You can write a TCP/IP stack for some processor on some platform? Yeah, we all _know_ that can be done, but, why waste your time doing something useless?
    I'm willing to be the guy learned a great deal by doing this. A while ago I wrote a spaceship flying demo in OpenGL. Utterly useless. It's been done before. But hey, I learned a lot about OpenGL in the process.

    If you're just going to sit there doing only "useful" stuff that's completely original, you aren't going to get much done.

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    Ryan T. Sammartino
    "Ancora imparo"

  4. Pays an homage to saint Linus... by anticypher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you look way down on his web page, back to the october days, he starts by creating a multi-threading kernel, and then writing alternate A's and B's to the screen. This is what Linus did when he was testing his first attempt at multi-threading two processes.

    If you read through the site, you get the idea he is learning all kinds of requisite CompSci skills along the way. That's good enough reason to do a project like this.

    From a late night hacking session on 3rd April 2002: I believe this may be a world first. My GBA is currently connected to the Internet (yes, if I gave you the address, you could access it right now!).

    Now, if he only would post that IP address, we could see how it stands up to the /. effect :-)

    the AC

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    Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
  5. Re:But why? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Obviously working for hour upon hour to write a web server for a freakin' Game Boy that no one will use will ever fit any of those categories.

    It's called play. Most curious people learn through playing. A few people with Eric Cartman-like personalities, however, can't understand the concept.