Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

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russdill•about 3 hours ago

"One cmake invocation goes from source to a bootable disc.gdi. No Platform Builder, no SDK install, no CD key." It's like the new emdash.

RobKohr•about 2 hours ago

AI loves to sell the words they are saying like a QVC salesperson with a knife set.

It doesn't just cut cans, it cuts tomatos too. You would think you have to sharpen it, but you don't.

Not just this, but that.

Sounds nothing like a normal succenct engineer.

danudey•about 1 hour ago

I had Claude do a "short, succinct summary" of two bugs I found in someone else's Python code: one was missing parentheses around subtraction (x = a - b - c instead of x = a - (b - c)) and one was `SomeException("asdf")` instead of `raise SomeException("asdf")`.

Both explanations were a paragraph of text, each about six lines long, which I replaced with a single sentence each.

TazeTSchnitzel•about 2 hours ago

If you're going to throw AI at the problem, couldn't you get it to port the real Windows CE shell ?

tangenter•about 2 hours ago

You’ve nailed the core of the smoking gun.

nvr219•about 2 hours ago

I've got the shape of it.

danudey•about 1 hour ago

I now have the full picture.

486sx33•about 2 hours ago

I actually love this because the entire time I owned a Dreamcast I used to look at the windows CE logo on the front and think, does it have windows CE in ROM? How can I boot it?

ThrowawayB7•about 1 hour ago

Windows CE isn't in ROM, the binaries are loaded from GD-ROM disc for games that chose to use it. And booting it wouldn't do you much good anyway since there's no graphical or text shell. It's intended to launch straight into the game.

pjmlp•about 1 hour ago

There were some Microsoft Systems Journal issues with articles on how to program for Dreamcast, the non NDA part of it.

Here is one of such articles, take it while still exists,

https://jacobfilipp.com/MSJ/directx.html

The sibling comment already has the other info, everything was bundled together.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

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