That video is very annoying and doesn&#x27;t in any way replace just having a screenshot of it running.

Tinfoil Hat Take: Avoiding screenshots on the project page drives eyeballs to YouTube, which the provides ad revenue, which then feeds back into the project.

The youtube video covering it has an interesting run through of the desktop environment in the final section <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eGS9su_inBY&amp;t=2418s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eGS9su_inBY&amp;t=2418s</a>. But I agree a screenshot or two wouldn&#x27;t hurt.

+1I support this. Make Screenshots of your work and put it in the README.md

Way cool project, but why are folks so allergic to putting screenshots of their work in the readme? There&#x27;s a graph of how the internals work instead of a screenshot of the desktop running.

The video that skipped to the actual content was neat, but the author saying &quot;they don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re doing&quot; is very evident by the time you get to the end of the video watching them fumble to find architecture-specific MIPS binaries. Good grief.

It did, but the N64&#x27;s maximum 8MB of RAM would be a heck of a lift for even NT 3.51.

I wonder if Windows NT could work? I think it had a MIPS port?

We definitely are. Somebody is trying to build a PS2 exporter for Unity. Someone else ported Portal to the N64 before Nintendo slapped em with a C&amp;D. There&#x27;s been a lot of work on Dreamcast development, too

We had WiiMac a month ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47691730">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47691730</a>
Are we seeing a resurgence of interest in porting stuff to old consoles? AI is helping with these hobbies I guess.

This is one person&#x27;s hobby project that presumably less than 100 people will actually install. Of course no one cares that it was made with AI and won&#x27;t be maintained.

New ground-up projects get a softer reaction than 100% rewrites to tools that people are already depending on.

This is written entirely by claude right? I can tell just by the comments in the source code.Weird how HN upvotes projects like these but seemed to hate the Bun Rust swap done with Claude.

Projects like this is why I come to Hacker News. Well done.

On the early alkaline &#x2F; NiCd AA battery powered WinCE PDAs with as little as 2-4 MB of RAM and a very slow single core processor, having only 32 process slots wasn&#x27;t really a limitation. You couldn&#x27;t afford too many processes or to be doing much computation anyway.Don&#x27;t get me wrong by the way. For their time, the early PDAs were expensive, bleeding edge tech and the limited things that could be done with them was still unprecedented. They crawled so future smartphones could run.

They somehow kept failing, too.A decade or so ago, my partner&#x27;s cell phone provider was bought by AT&amp;T and the old network was to be disconnected. AT&amp;T&#x27;s network was incompatible with their existing phone so they were required to get a new one.The only smartphone they could get for free was a Nokia device running Windows Phone 8, so they picked that.Their level of technical sophistication was not very high and this was to be their first pocket computer.It had a fraction of the CPU grunt of my Galaxy S5 so I expected it to be slow and for them to hate it. I also expected to be asked to solve problems with it and help them along with some aspect of it or another.But there was none of that. It just worked. They never had any questions. Like many people with a pocket computer, they came to use it all the time for things.I poked at it myself a few times and found the user interface to be very different from Android and IOS, but it flowed well and was always instantly responsive. It was a neat little machine that seemed to perform extraordinarily well.And despite finding a way to get this kind of positivity from me, a former OS&#x2F;2 zealot and long-time user of free operating systems, they still managed to completely fuck up the entire operation. It remains the only example of a Windows Phone device that I&#x27;m aware of ever having seen someone use in the wild.

I certainly thought the c. 2001 PDAs under the PocketPC brand were absolutely sick. My hot take is that if the US telecom industry had by that year built out a network of good 3G coverage, those PocketPC devices would have of course had cellular capability, and would have sold like hotcakes, and would have become the basis, the ‘trope originator’ if you will, for Mobile computing. What iPhone was in our timeline.I think what really held them back was that Wi-Fi was only starting to roll out, and outside a hotspot area, the universe of things you might do with one was necessarily quite self-contained. It limited what “killer apps” could be developed, as anything designed for the platform probably needs to be fully offline most of the time.

WinCE had a load of weird issues (and looked consistently awful), but moving onto PDAs and even phones running it from a world of Psion and Palm was like stepping forward a century. This might be rose tinted recollections - and helps that it coincided with with the consumerisation of WiFi and Bluetooth - but fond memories. I still can&#x27;t believe how Microsoft had a surprisingly capable mobile OS years before Android or Apple and yet managed to fail so badly.

CE 6 doesn&#x27;t get enough love. It was an amazing OS that had a tiny runtime and a tiny on device foot print (it could get under 16MB iirc).Too bad the tooling around it was so bad. I should do a writeup of why, it is an interesting case study in how poor extendability of tooling can hurt an entire company.

Windows CE late in its lifetime (CE 6.0) had that go away with per-process address spaces.

WinCE was so weird. Didn&#x27;t it have pretty insane limits, like maximum 32 processes?

WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64