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Subjectlinux new  
Posted byAnonymous
Posted on2/9/04 00:20 AM
From IP195.138.67.57  



linux on NES. is it possible?




SubjectRe: linux new  
Posted bykoitsu
Posted on2/9/04 00:29 AM
From IP64.81.51.192  



The more appropriate question: is it stupid?

-- jdc


SubjectRe: linux new  
Posted byMemblers
Posted on2/9/04 06:24 AM
From IP68.58.99.218  



There is some version of linux for C64 though, I think it's called lunix.

An unexpanded NES only has 2KB of RAM, I don't think an OS could do much of anything with that.




SubjectRe: linux new  
Posted byhcs
Posted on2/9/04 1:19 PM
From IP192.94.73.2  



> An unexpanded NES only has 2KB of RAM, I don't think an OS could do much of anything with that.

Or you could use VRAM and get a little extra, of course you wouldn't have graphics but...

-hcs


SubjectFDS? new  
Posted bytepples
Posted on2/9/04 4:21 PM
From IP68.54.20.186  



The NES may have 2 KB of CPU addressable RAM, but the Famicom has 34 KB: 2 KB mapped in low memory and 32 KB mapped in $6000-$efff of the FDS RAM cart.




SubjectRe: FDS?  
Posted bydXtr
Posted on2/9/04 6:00 PM
From IP194.47.158.137  



Why does the famicom got all the cool stuff? ;D
"Why, oh why, didn't Nintendo release the famicom outside Japan?" :D

sorry for misspellings


SubjectPiracy new  
Posted bytepples
Posted on2/10/04 4:08 PM
From IP68.54.20.186  



Nintendo didn't release the Famicom Disk System outside of Japan because Nintendo observed that large-scale commercial copyright infringement of FDS games had become much more of a problem in practice than large-scale commercial copyright infringement of Game Paks. The 64DD (in effect a Zip drive for the N64) never made it over for almost exactly the same reason.




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