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Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy

Posted by timothy on from the does-it-play-space-travel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amit Singh has a piece on his site about running the 5th edition UNIX distribution on a Nintendo Gameboy, of all things. Tons of screenshots and source included but what really makes this entertaining and informational in an ubergeekly sort of way is his side stories on UNIX history ... ARM CPU ... compiling and running random programs on the Gameboy, etc. There are even notes on recompiling the original Unix kernel to make it smaller for the GBA!"

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  1. Re:Great web site and a good read by Evangelion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nintendo Corporation, Limited was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda (Japanese playing cards).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

  2. Re:Great web site and a good read by vaderhelmet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nintendo's Official History
    http://www.nintendo.com/corp/history.jsp

  3. Input by lachlan76 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't have a GBA, but how easy would it be to input commands into one?

    I am aware that commands currently need to be selected at compile-time.

    It's interesting, but doesn't have a lot of practial uses.

  4. Re:Great web site and a good read... But FLAW by johnjones · · Score: 5, Informative

    their are a couple of flaws

    o 1 the game boy is not running unix

    o 2 they dont have a game boy they have the game boy advance

    o 3 they simulate a PDP11 on a game boy advance simulator running on a mac/pc

    instead why dont you look at howto use uclinux on GBA...

    http://wwwhsse.fh-hagenberg.at/Studierende/hse02 00 6/uclgba/gba-howto/

    regards

    John Jones