[HN Gopher] Porting Quake to the iPod Classic
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       Porting Quake to the iPod Classic
        
       Author : Ivoah
       Score  : 116 points
       Date   : 2020-01-27 19:27 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.fwei.tk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.fwei.tk)
        
       | lbj wrote:
       | > "7325 is prime whenever taken modulo a power of two. This
       | somehow (I'm actually not sure exactly how) leads to the sound
       | mixing code being passed a one-sample array, triggering the
       | corner case and freeze.
       | 
       | > I spent at least a day rooting out this bug,"
       | 
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       | 
       | For a days work I'd say he did pretty good!
        
       | bitcurious wrote:
       | I remember playing Doom and watching the Simpsons on my iPod mini
       | around 2005. I used iPodLinux[0], and it was my first time going
       | beyond the GUI. It wasn't very useful, but it taught me not to be
       | afraid. I wonder what the equivalent is for today's teens.
       | 
       | [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPodLinux
        
       | alfla wrote:
       | Haha, great article! too bad the video is unavailable :-(
        
         | aidos wrote:
         | Yeah, it's private unfortunately.
         | 
         | I really enjoyed that little diversion too, wonderful project.
         | Just enough detail in the article that you get a nice little
         | taste of the complexity without getting lost in the detail.
         | Bravo all round.
        
           | asdf21 wrote:
           | Best I can find is a photo on the wiki...
           | https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginQuake
           | 
           | https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/PluginQuake/out.jpg
        
           | arthurcolle wrote:
           | I wonder why he switched it to private. Is there fear from
           | Apple, or other device manufacturers for side-loading
           | software? You'd think they wouldn't really care for a
           | discontinued product.
        
         | lukifer wrote:
         | Obviously it's not the same, but here's Doom on an iPod
         | classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpMhJijlmM
         | 
         | Hope we can see a vid of Quake on iPod soon!
        
           | apocalyptic0n3 wrote:
           | The iPod Video and lower had some pretty incredible tools and
           | firmwares available looking back. I was part of the iPod
           | Wizard team (mostly helped with mapping hex locations on new
           | firmware releases and created a handful of themes, including
           | backporting the color themes to the 4-tone generations) and
           | contributed a bit to the iPodLinux project. At one point, I
           | had a bootloader that let me switch between the normal
           | firmware, Rockbox, iPodLinux, and iPod Wiki (all of Wikipedia
           | viewable offline on your iPod) available just be restarting
           | my iPod. It was a dumb smart phone half a decade before the
           | iPhone.
           | 
           | The devs on those teams really pushed that little MP3 player
           | to do things it was never intended to do.
        
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