Maybe of interest to the folks currently participating in the Old Computer Challenge:
I have reactivated my Sharp Netwalker PC-Z1.
It still runs Ubuntu 9.04, but I managed to do the following:
* Install a dev environment
* install current version of some GNU tools.
* compile openssl 1.1.1u instead of the installed 0.9.8i (cough, cough) and install it locally.
(1/2) tbc
* Build links 2.29 against said local openssl and install it locally. Works in graphics mode. The supplied Firefox doesn't work anymore, because it's linked against the old openssl and doesn't support current TLS/SSL protocols.
* Build SDL2 (2.0.12). Doesn't seem to work.
* Build Decker and play flappy bird.
(edit: correct links version)
(file under procrastination)
Now the Decker binary that used to work under OpenBSD, does not work anymore :(. Presumably after an update to the SDL2 library after "pkg_add -uv". "SDL error: No available displays". Rebuilding from source and building the latest version (Decker 1.23) doesn't help (same error). Setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER to "x11" doesn't help either.