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by triangleman 2004 days ago
Couldn't developers have easily ported their Windows games to Windows CE?
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muststopmyths 2004 days ago
I don't believe Windows CE had DirectX until later, so there probably wasn't any compatibility path.

Edit: apparently wrong again! not my day today.

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ThrowawayB7 2004 days ago
It's been a while but IIRC it was a cut down version of DirectX 5 ported from desktop Windows.
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dfox 2004 days ago
Windows CE as an OS has lot of peculiarities. For essentially single-tasking game console most of them are probably irrelevant, but on the other hand these peculiarities would probably make straight port of typical DirectX game from desktop windows an interesting endeavor.
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tasogare 2004 days ago
> The Sega Dreamcast is known for running an optimised version of Windows CE (with DirectX) as an operating system.

From the page linked.

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numpad0 2004 days ago
PC port from DC games happened for some titles but I’d imagine the other way around would have been difficult.
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