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Comment by alfla | Hacker News Reader

Haha, great article! too bad the video is unavailable :-(

Yeah, it’s private unfortunately.

I really enjoyed that little diversion too, wonderful project. Just enough detail in the article that you get a nice little taste of the complexity without getting lost in the detail. Bravo all round.

Best I can find is a photo on the wiki... https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginQuake

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/PluginQuake/out.jpg

I wonder why he switched it to private. Is there fear from Apple, or other device manufacturers for side-loading software? You’d think they wouldn’t really care for a discontinued product.

(Author of linked post.)

That video was recorded by another developer, who had some personal (non-legal) concerns with it and plans to reshoot.

Obviously it's not the same, but here's Doom on an iPod classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpMhJijlmM

Hope we can see a vid of Quake on iPod soon!

The iPod Video and lower had some pretty incredible tools and firmwares available looking back. I was part of the iPod Wizard team (mostly helped with mapping hex locations on new firmware releases and created a handful of themes, including backporting the color themes to the 4-tone generations) and contributed a bit to the iPodLinux project. At one point, I had a bootloader that let me switch between the normal firmware, Rockbox, iPodLinux, and iPod Wiki (all of Wikipedia viewable offline on your iPod) available just be restarting my iPod. It was a dumb smart phone half a decade before the iPhone.

The devs on those teams really pushed that little MP3 player to do things it was never intended to do.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6V-4AZ7pkA

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