this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, they’re still active? This brings out the nostalgia…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And their website still looks the same as back in 2010 or so.

[–] lka1988 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Today is still 4/1, so I'm going to wait until at least tomorrow before I form an opinion on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As will I, but those look like legit release notes and not a joke. Nothing jumps out as too good to be true or just bizarre.

[–] lka1988 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The only thing I'm really questioning is the removal of the Archos devices. I'm sure if this is legit then there are reasons for it, but those devices essentially started the entire Rockbox project.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"Greatly improved support for ATA SSDs (including the popular iFlash ATA-SD adapters) "

Oh hell ya!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Excellent morning news.

ROMs to turn portable-mp3-players libre.

Great project, congrats to devs on the 4.0 milestone!

[Currently listening with Rockbox on 512GB iPod]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

EXTRA:

Just found this post that outlines the initial efforts/hacks, to port Rockbox to the iPod.

https://derp.foo/post/473120

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What are the optimisations made to doom?

[–] pastermil 3 points 1 week ago

Wow, they just keep going!