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Modder releases Unix-like operating system for the NES
A recent video from modder "decrazyo" documents how he converted an operating system resembling Linux to run on an unmodified NES. The source code is available on...
The system meets the basic requirements of a PC OS that can theoretically run various applications and operates entirely on hardware that Nintendo released in the 1980s. Although the NES that defined the console market back then lacks the specs for this project, its enhanced Japan-only equivalent – the Famicom Disk System (FDS) – has enough extra memory and storage to accomplish the task with some significant tweaks. Although the finished product has some serious flaws, like visual glitches and slow performance due to the disk drive, it proves that the NES can run a Unix-style OS.
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