Windows CE Ported to Nintendo 64
Sometimes, hacking is about creating something that meets a need no off-the-shelf product quite meets. Other times, people hack just to see how far they can push hardware beyond its intended capabilities. When makers hack Doom onto toothbrushes, toasters, and thermostats, their projects definitely fall into this latter category. Throaty Mumbo’s latest project similarly pushes the Nintendo 64 to do something it was never intended to do: run Windows CE.
Why would you want to run an old version of Windows CE on a Nintendo 64, you ask? Well — you wouldn’t, really. You’d have a lot more fun playing GoldenEye 007. However, the challenge of getting it to work was too much for Throaty Mumbo to resist, so he did it anyway.
It runs on real Nintendo hardware (📷: Throaty Mumbo)
This was made possible by the fact that Microsoft’s Windows CE 2.11 was designed to run on...
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