Dreamcast Windows 98 on Dreamcast

[Juiceala]

 

[BiriCross]

Windows 98?
On DREAMCAST??

I'm amazed of this world.

 

[middler]

wasn't it already running Win CE or something?

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I'd have killed for something like that back in the day.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

The Sega Dreamcast was marketed as ‘Compatible with/Designed for Windows CE.’ Later, people managed to run Mario Kart 64 and Star Fox on it, and now even Windows 98. This reminds me when the PlayStation could operate Linux.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Looks really great!

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

wasn't it already running Win CE or something?

The Dreamcast didn’t actually run Windows CE as its main system. Sega built its own operating system specifically for the console. What happened is that Sega made Windows CE available as an optional development kit, so game studios could use Microsoft’s tools if they wanted. This made it easier for developers already familiar with Windows to port or build games, but those titles often didn’t perform as well as games made with Sega’s native libraries. In short, the Dreamcast itself wasn’t a “Windows machine.” It just gave developers the option to use Windows CE for certain projects.

 

[Clippy]

So, I checked out the original dev's video on this and it's *not* Windows 98 running on the Dreamcast. It's just a recreation like one of those old flash games that used to proliferate on the Internet some 20 odd years ago.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool project as it is but it's not actual Microsoft code being forced to run on the console.

 

[Juiceala]

So, I checked out the original dev's video on this and it's *not* Windows 98 running on the Dreamcast. It's just a recreation like one of those old flash games that used to proliferate on the Internet some 20 odd years ago.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool project as it is but it's not actual Microsoft code being forced to run on the console.

I just finished watching it and I agree, still really pretty cool but yeah it's a costume OS that's built to look like Windows rather than actual Windows 98, sorry the Sega Guru video kinda fooled me.