[HN Gopher] Porting Quake to the iPod Classic ___________________________________________________________________ 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," | | --- | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-28 23:00 UTC)