7/4/2026 at 2:52:25 PM
by msephton
7/4/2026 at 9:43:18 PM
I'm guessing this is a vibe coded shell + some apps over the CE kernel? Never seen any version of CE that looked like that.it might be dumb but it really breaks my heart seeing cool hack projects like these being vibe coded. Like they've thrown away some opportunity or something i can't really articulate why
i think even the icons are drawn by claude which explains why they look so strange https://github.com/maximqaxd/wince-dc/blob/c929784ba13226cc3...
by unleaded
7/4/2026 at 4:51:50 PM
"One cmake invocation goes from source to a bootable disc.gdi. No Platform Builder, no SDK install, no CD key." It's like the new emdash.by russdill
7/4/2026 at 5:23:47 PM
AI loves to sell the words they are saying like a QVC salesperson with a knife set.It doesn't just cut cans, it cuts tomatos too. You would think you have to sharpen it, but you don't.
Not just this, but that.
Sounds nothing like a normal succenct engineer.
by RobKohr
7/4/2026 at 6:18:07 PM
I had Claude do a "short, succinct summary" of two bugs I found in someone else's Python code: one was missing parentheses around subtraction (x = a - b - c instead of x = a - (b - c)) and one was `SomeException("asdf")` instead of `raise SomeException("asdf")`.Both explanations were a paragraph of text, each about six lines long, which I replaced with a single sentence each.
by danudey
7/4/2026 at 9:12:05 PM
When it spits out 4 pages of explanations, when I'm asking it what's better postgres locks or redis locks (two dbs I already have in my project), I sometimes tell it to keep it shorter than a few sentences. We don't need an essay for every decision.by throwitaway222
7/4/2026 at 5:49:20 PM
If you're going to throw AI at the problem, couldn't you get it to port the real Windows CE shell ?by TazeTSchnitzel
7/4/2026 at 6:02:09 PM
You’ve nailed the core of the smoking gun.by tangenter
7/4/2026 at 6:07:10 PM
I've got the shape of it.by nvr219
7/4/2026 at 6:16:04 PM
I now have the full picture.by danudey
7/4/2026 at 8:08:06 PM
I find it's a shame the article is absolutely littered with AI-isms, again, like another cool hack project the other day here on HN. It is incredibly jarring to read a line like "No Platform Builder, no SDK install, no CD key.".Sounds like a cool project but I find it a bit offensive that the article author doesn't value the article reader's time enough to edit the AI-isms out.
On the other hand, trying to point this out usually results in downvotes, so maybe it's useless to complain about this trend?
by 0x0
7/4/2026 at 5:40:47 PM
I actually love this because the entire time I owned a Dreamcast I used to look at the windows CE logo on the front and think, does it have windows CE in ROM? How can I boot it?by 486sx33
7/4/2026 at 6:41:28 PM
Windows CE isn't in ROM, the binaries are loaded from GD-ROM disc for games that chose to use it. And booting it wouldn't do you much good anyway since there's no graphical or text shell. It's intended to launch straight into the game.by ThrowawayB7
7/4/2026 at 9:25:04 PM
Adding on to everyone else. Games that did run wince included the wince logo on the dreamcast splash screen.by toast0
7/4/2026 at 9:01:34 PM
Same, especially because at the time of Dreamcasts’s release - Windows CE was everywhere in the handhelds and PDA market.by crims0n
7/4/2026 at 6:48:27 PM
There were some Microsoft Systems Journal issues with articles on how to program for Dreamcast, the non NDA part of it.Here is one of such articles, take it while still exists,
https://jacobfilipp.com/MSJ/directx.html
The sibling comment already has the other info, everything was bundled together.
by pjmlp