alt Hacker NewsI 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?
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ThrowawayB7 • today at 6:41 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.
pjmlp • today at 6:48 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.
Same, especially because at the time of Dreamcasts’s release - Windows CE was everywhere in the handhelds and PDA market.