LinuxMD Project Runs Linux on Original Sega Mega Drive Hardware
Developer Daniel Palmer has released LinuxMD, an experimental project that boots Linux on an actual Sega Mega Drive console from 1988. The project requires a Mega EverDrive flash cartridge with SSF2 mapper support to provide the necessary 4MB of RAM. Palmer also provides a modified QEMU emulator fork for testing, though it runs faster than real hardware.