WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64 (opens in new tab)

He's clearly doing a bit where he pretends to be confused and incompetent, and the punchline of the video is that he ends up with a working Windows CE port. He did a bit of soldering on the N64 board in the video so I think he probably does know what he's doing to a certain degree.

That said, LLMs have gotten extremely good at this kind of thing and you'd be shocked what you can do with this kind of low level work.

WinCE had a load of weird issues (and looked consistently awful), but moving onto PDAs and even phones running it from a world of Psion and Palm was like stepping forward a century. This might be rose tinted recollections - and helps that it coincided with with the consumerisation of WiFi and Bluetooth - but fond memories. I still can't believe how Microsoft had a surprisingly capable mobile OS years before Android or Apple and yet managed to fail so badly.

Windows CE late in its lifetime (CE 6.0) had that go away with per-process address spaces.

We definitely are. Somebody is trying to build a PS2 exporter for Unity. Someone else ported Portal to the N64 before Nintendo slapped em with a C&D. There's been a lot of work on Dreamcast development, too

The youtube video covering it has an interesting run through of the desktop environment in the final section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGS9su_inBY&t=2418s. But I agree a screenshot or two wouldn't hurt.

+1

I support this. Make Screenshots of your work and put it in the README.md

It did, but the N64's maximum 8MB of RAM would be a heck of a lift for even NT 3.51.

yes, but it was rather choosy with the rest of the hardware

This is one person's hobby project that presumably less than 100 people will actually install. Of course no one cares that it was made with AI and won't be maintained.

New ground-up projects get a softer reaction than 100% rewrites to tools that people are already depending on.