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Products that do what A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone does
I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal. I wrote it up here: https://tmzt.github.io/blog/a-modern-port-of-linux-to-a-ten-... You can see the code here: https://github.com/tmzt/linux-stable-msm-dtsi
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2013 · kevinboone.net
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Relive vintage operating systems right on your desktop
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I am not sure if this is fits the HN community, but I am posting it here if people are interested. This is the current iteration of the car: http://i.imgur.com/ko8YBh.jpg Details: I wrote a simple android app that streams the accelerometer data from the phone to the pi over a simple socket. The pi then uses this data to drive the DC motor and the servo motor. Tilting the phone to control the car feels very natural. In this[0] pic you can see the wifi dongle I've used. I am using Adafruit Occidental v0.2[1] as my OS because it has support for my wifi dongle. It also makes some hardware…
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2020 · github.com
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After switching to 100% Linux a couple of years ago there was basically only one thing I missed about macOS and that was what Apple calls "Continuity". It's where you get texts, notifications, clipboard sync, file transfer (to/from) the iPhone from the Mac desktop. Especially that thing where OTP codes via text autofilled into the browser form I was waiting on. It took about 4 months of work: - reverse-engineering Apple/iOS Bluetooth behavior - MAP / OBEX - Bluetooth LE + Wi-Fi working together - iMessage through the iPhone's own cellular/iMessage stack - iOS app, Linux…
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2015 · github.com
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Hi HN, I've decided to port the original (non-super) Star Trek game to C since I wanted to try playing the original but wasn't able to find a lot of sources that run on modern machines. Therefore I based this port on Michael Birken's 2008 C# port. This is in contrast to the Super Star Trek game which was far more popular and has a number of sources available on the web. I took some hamfisted measures to allow the Web Assembly version of the game to be played on mobile as well, it's not very pretty but it kind of works. You can tap into the terminal to open your phone keyboard, then the…
2024 · busfahrer.github.io
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2020 · github.com
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SSH & terminal for Android and iOS - always in your pocket
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2016 · github.com
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2019 · github.com
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