Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE

Re:Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE by triangleman on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:34PM (#25553145)

Couldn't developers have easily ported their Windows games to Windows CE?

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Re:Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE by muststopmyths on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:12PM (#25553434)

I don't believe Windows CE had DirectX until later, so there probably wasn't any compatibility path.

Edit: apparently wrong again! not my day today.

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Re:Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE by ThrowawayB7 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:47PM (#25553695)

It's been a while but IIRC it was a cut down version of DirectX 5 ported from desktop Windows.

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Re:Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE by dfox on Sunday December 27, 2020 @03:53PM (#25554154)

Windows CE as an OS has lot of peculiarities. For essentially single-tasking game console most of them are probably irrelevant, but on the other hand these peculiarities would probably make straight port of typical DirectX game from desktop windows an interesting endeavor.

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Re:Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE by tasogare on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:28PM (#25553552)

> The Sega Dreamcast is known for running an optimised version of Windows CE (with DirectX) as an operating system.

From the page linked.

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Re:Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE by numpad0 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:34PM (#25553602)

PC port from DC games happened for some titles but I’d imagine the other way around would have been difficult.

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