{"id":5165,"date":"2025-04-08T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5165\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:54:11","slug":"the-genesis-mega-drive-gets-its-own-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5165\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genesis \/ Mega Drive Gets Its Own Operating System"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a> Image: Damien McFerran \/ Time Extension<\/p>\n

The Sega Mega Drive<\/a>\u2014or Genesis, if you’re in the US\u2014remains the company’s most commercially successful home console, and is famous for going toe-to-toe with Nintendo during the early ’90s console wars.<\/p>\n

It’s also a system which, in recent times, has seen an inordinate amount of homebrew development, with multiple new games arriving on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n

Another cool new development regarding the console is the fact that it Fusix<\/a>, a UNIX-style operating system, has been ported to the machine, which opens up several interesting possibilities in the future (thanks, Hackaday<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Consoles like the Mega Drive and SNES usually run code booted from cartridges, and that’s about it\u2014but with a functional OS, the Genesis is potentially capable of behaving more like a modern-day computer.<\/p>\n

It offers a working shell and the typical UNIX utilities, but as noted by Hackaday, the 64k of memory offered by the console is going to limit things a little.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s amazing to see so much effort being committed to doing cool stuff on ageing hardware.<\/p>\n

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Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension<\/a>, the network’s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming’s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Damien McFerran \/ Time Extension The Sega Mega Drive\u2014or Genesis, if you’re in the US\u2014remains the company’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2891,2890,2247,12,2889,53,240,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-5165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-genesis","9":"tag-homebrews","10":"tag-mega-drive","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sega","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-time-extension","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114302449424704160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}