There are a ton of things in this world that I have seen Geeks do and thought that it was either cool or interesting. Rarely though do I sit there thinking that the poor souls are just wasting their f*cking time with something. This is one of those cases.

Nintendo’s Gameboy should only have one sole purpose and that is to play highquality games. In no way should one attempt to load the UNIX operating system on it and use it. No matter how cool you think it is. I mean, I mean, I mean…ah hell, I guess this is kind of cool.

But does this mean that they just beat every game out there and couldn’t find any other uses for the GBA?

In this document, we discuss “gbaunix”, a rather contrived experiment in which we run an ancient version of the UNIX operating system on a popular hand-held video game system using a simulator.

via Kottke

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