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486sx33yesterday at 5:40 PM5 repliesview on HN

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?


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ThrowawayB7yesterday at 6:41 PM

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.

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pjmlpyesterday at 6:48 PM

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.

toast0yesterday at 9:25 PM

Adding on to everyone else. Games that did run wince included the wince logo on the dreamcast splash screen.

crims0nyesterday at 9:01 PM

Same, especially because at the time of Dreamcasts’s release - Windows CE was everywhere in the handhelds and PDA market.

0x1d7today at 2:22 AM

Very few games used WinCE.

I see this project as simply fun, like running NT on a Wii.