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Linux for Sega Genesis

Rob Beschizza
Jun 30, 2026
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A peculiarity of Sega’s fondly-remembered Dreamcast game console was that it was compatible with Windows CE, a minimal version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system. But that’s nothing. Now you can have Linux on a Sega Genesis/Megadrive, thanks to Daniel Palmer. “Is this a joke?” he writes. “No.”

Note that is insanely slow right now. A 12MHz 68000 syst…

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