The next step in the iPod's journey from being
just a digital audio player to a device that does literally everything is the iPod MAME project. The
emulator--a very much unsupported emulator for iPod linux--allows you to
play such legendary games as Pac-Man on a range of iPods. We assume that the emulator will play other MAME games (no telling how well), but since the only iPod available for us to test is a chunky 3G iPod, we can't test this theory. In the meantime, check out Scott's nano MAME cabinet pictured on the right. Scott's been working hard to fine tune the graphics for the iPod's display, as well as creating a custom MAME cabinet to play the games on.
[Via Boing Boing]
See also:
Play Doom on your iPod
iPod linux project spawns Game Boy emulator
iDoom: now (very) playable on the iPod nano
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That is awesome and scary at the same time. I really don't know what to think about it.
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kudos for the emulator, but not for the cabinet design. that's just piss poor.
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but thankfully Joystiq seems to have gone a whole day without telling us there is 'nothing new' on the PS3.
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Anyway, why must linux be ported to all systems? Why don't we work on making it useful for something other than web serving on ONE system and THEN work on porting it to everything that can plug into a wall?
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