The good old days. I had the BBA, so cross compiling apps was a fun way to learn more about embedded systems. I'd wait patiently for hardware hackers to write drivers to new peripherals, as I was too much of a n00b to myself.

Maybe I missed it, but why didn't he use the hard drive adapter? One of these arbitrary restrictions like not using SH-boot? I think the hard drive mod was first discovered in 2002