Windows on Sega Genesis
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October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
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@Dj.MODÆO
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
About halfway through this video, YouTube played an ad where I watched in horror as this “artist” took a functioning $400-$500 vintage portable color CRT, gutted it, tossed the electronics and hardware in the trash and turned it into a $20 fish tank. I was too horrified to hit skip and it had bothered me for like ten minutes and I have to keep telling myself that it was AI generated and wasn’t real.
@4reg4
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
you'd probably have fun with the teradrive
@melenico4512
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Interesting I use to work as a SQL Server DBA in I.T Systems.
@DerekQuenneville
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Ambulance is 100% a reference to DONKEY.BAS from DOS 1.1 by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen 🫏
@eddierice3254
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
I hope he did not blow into the cart, its 2026 lets use ipa
@retro_reflections
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
It always hits like a size 12 steel toecap to the soul when people talk about being a nipper playing Sonic, whilst I was in my twenties and working as a developer… #ouch
@manuelh.4147
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Background music is too loud and distracting.
@MrGeocidal
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Holy Hell! Your TV room is awesome!
@YS_Production
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Sounds like the Defragmenter music is inspired by the Win11 startup sound.
@DrGobii
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
But will it work on the less than great AtGames Sega Genesis?
@fellipec
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Pudim!!!
@Synthrelaiser
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
us that riding bean in the backgrond! °.°
@beanboy89
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
The song at 10:08 sounds like its a remix or inspired by the Windows 95 game Hover! that came on the Windows 95 CD.
@revision386
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Awesome Sauce!
@darkdoescodes
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
That CRT TV unit is MAGNIFICENT. Like you really don't see anyone with a unit like that anymore especially in the Youtube space. It's either a professional grade monitor or an everyday CRT. But that BEAST really was a sign you'd "made it" in the 90s and early 00s, such a big screen and a matching storage stand. I positively salivated over many Comet and Currys magazines with images like that when I was a child.
@DanielJD79
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Was that Riding Bean on the TV?
@d_vibe-swe
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
This is fantastic, even though I was never really a fan of Windows 95 or 98.. 😉
@BGBTech
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
I had a similar background as well… Win 3.x then Win95 (during elementary school), then dual-booting NT4 and Linux (middle school), then 2K and Linux (during high-school). Also started with QBasic, but then moved to C during 6th and 7th grade (first with TurboC then moved to Cygwin), … In my case, I am an aging millennial… Most of my projects are a bit more obscure and tend to be much more "technical esoteria" though…
@jessesimonsson532
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
What is the song called at @2:25?
@JohnSmith-zw8vp
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
I always did wonder if you could do this. Put Windows on an NES/SNES/GEN cartridge and use with the controller ports a keyboard and mouse (like SNES Mouse) accessory to turn it into a computer.
@stephenelliott7071
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
The background is looking colourful and on point mate.
@techkev140
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
De-fragging a SEGA console cartridge? Only MerkySlop could produce an OS capable of bringing the Gennesis/Mega Drive to its knees. Mikeyeldey obviously knows his way around the hardware enough to provide a superior experience when you need to defrag. It's now safe to turn your console off, that reassuring message you are finished with the tech for today.
Why do i find this video so interesting, i never had a SEGA system. Although i had Windows… 95
@skin_N_bones-h5f
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Using a gaming console as a home computer is actually not novel. That was literally the Famicom, what the Nintendo entertainment system was known as in Japan. When the NES ship in America, it was stripped down to just be a gaming console, but the Famicom could accept disk drives, mice, keyboards etc. and they made various productivity software for it. I always thought that would be so fun, like filling out a spreadsheet on my Nintendo. God I was a boring kid 😂
@MichaelWhiteGaming
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Um back in my day we ran Genesis on Windows! AND WE LIKED IT
@danboid
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
It's called a Mega Drive, traitor!
@StreborKram
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Maybe it's just me but it still seems quite egotistical to stick name and face everywhere. An anonymised version would have been more approachable.
@kevinsammut7246
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
I went to download this off the creators site and want to leave a donation, but I didn't see any other option besides PayPal. I refuse to use it.
@EricM-112
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
Its sweet, reminds me of Tim and Eriks innernet by Cinco
@Jurtaani
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
is there a rom floating around of this?
i would very well like to know if this cart would work and if it would detect if it is running on a PAL, PAL-J or NTSC or NTSC-J console and display the correct info on the booting up animation.
at lest such feature is possible on Mega Drive, since same rom of Streets of Rage will show it's Japanese title Bare Knuckle, if you set your emulator into Japan region or if you take your cart and connect it to Japanese console through an adapter.
Edit: sure enough. i got further in the video and it was answered for me, and yes it definitely knows if it is being played on NTSC or PAL system.
@WhatHoSnorkers
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
What a lovely bit of kit!
@Sommyie
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
With all of the videos coming out about OSX on the Wii, this almost feels like another "Sega does what Nintendont" shot
@GregtheGhost_ca
October 8, 2026 at 2:18 am
14:17 Where is his hand?!?! What are those fingers doing?