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wii rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Bogan@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 months ago

73 MB of RAM, ouch

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And not even continuous ram! The wii had 2 bits, 24MB fast memory ( mem1 ) and 64 MB of slower memory (mem2) haha

[-] Bogan@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Please keep telling us Wii facts, this is important

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Most of what i know is from year and years of working on the console and are found on wiibrew.org haha

[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Damn Small Linux can run a graphical desktop environment with as little as 16 MB of RAM (although 24 is recommended).

That really makes me want to see a Wii with a mouse and keyboard plugged in displaying a spreadsheet or something. Unfortunately DSL only supports x86. Theoretically it could be ported to PPC like Void Linux was, though I don't know if all the tweaks they did to make the kernel and pre-installed packages as small as possible would make that harder.