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Accidentally bought Network Switch instead of Nintendo Switch
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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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You accidentally lucked into correctness.
You've never played as fun a game of space invaders as when you're arbitrarily shooting down network packets and forcing TCP into over time.
A bit unrelated, but if you have DD-WRT on WiFi router with USB, you can install Entware. There's also a few games.
I used to play Tetris (vitetris) on my old WiFi router. I also tried to compile doom_ascii for MIPS, but I wasn't successful and gave up. That was 5 months ago, so I basically forgot everything I tried already.
I have also tried to compile it directly on the WiFi router, but it kept crashing even when I killed all running services (including SSH and Telnet so I had to use console, at least it's 115,200 baud) that weren't necessary. I think 32MB of RAM was my problem.
Anyway, I doubt it would run on it anyway, but at least I tried.
List of games available (at least for MIPS): angband, cavezofphear, crawl, gnuchess, minesweep-rs, nethack, rcon, sudoku-tui, superstartrek, tty-solitaire, vitetris, zork.
Edit: Hmm, it seems at least very few Netgear switches may be supported by OpenWRT (e.g.: https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/gs308t_1). Maybe there is potential to actually play games on that switch!
You had me at nethack - I wonder if you could run the rendering engine (aka message visibility and customization) for a mud just by exploiting packet forwarding on a switch. That sounds like an interesting tinkering project.