#dingoo

The Dingoo? It runs Linux.

The Dingoo is another one in a long series of Asian handheld devices mainly aimed at emulating old systems. Although several original games were released for the device (along with native ports of titles like Doom - because of course It Runs Doom).

For some reason, it came with built-in Flash and RealMedia support. Yes, RealMedia. On a device that came out in 2009.

It was also capable of rudimentary 3D acceleration, allowing it to run games that wouldn't look entirely out of place on the original Playstation. None of them were terribly interesting, thought.

The built-in emulators, ostensibly the raison d'être for this device's existence, were unfortunately all terrible. With the exception of the NES and, oddly, the Capcom CPS-1 arcade board, the device cannot emulate anything in a playable manner. Fortunately, where weird Chinese devices go, Linux nerds swiftly follow. A version of the Linux kernel was developed shortly after the device launched and allowed people to run much better emulators than the ones the device came with (as well as as a better version of Doom, natch).

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