Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere
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Atmosphère is a work-in-progress customized firmware for the Nintendo Switch.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-10-17 · latest 2026-01-28
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…engineer and more or less reconstitute the original source code. You can see it here, it's tiny: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/tree/master/meso...
comment by jsheard · 2026-01-28 · in Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux -
The Switch does have alternative Open Source firmware: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere
comment by bigyabai · 2025-04-09 · in Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2's C button -
…native apps or mainline Linux/Android with Nvidia's Tegra drivers: https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere So that's two of the big three consoles that technically do let you install anything you want.
comment by talldayo · 2024-06-24 · in Apple found in breach of EU competition rules -
Knock yourself out: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere The Nintendo Switch is a great console for sideloading. There are numerous ports of PC titles like Quake and Half-Life, as well as a library of Homebrew games and modding…
comment by smoldesu · 2024-03-12 · in Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU -
…reimplemented the entire kernel. https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher... https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/tree/mesosphere-...
comment by gjsman-1000 · 2023-07-04 · in An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf] -
…"Horizon". It has been fully reverse-engineered, and a 1:1 open-source reimplementation exists: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/tree/master/libr...
comment by Retr0id · 2022-10-04 · in Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels? -
…at this point. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar... [1] https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/tree/master/libr...
comment by Cu3PO42 · 2021-05-10 · in DragonflyBSD 6.0 -
…you can take a look at the roadmap and design docs here (or just browse the source) if you'd like. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/blob/master/docs...
comment by j-james · 2021-02-11 · in Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021 -
…from a nearly complete open-source reimplementation of the full operating system and kernel. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere
comment by j-james · 2021-02-11 · in Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021 -
…solution, is aiming to be a _full reimplementation_ of the Switch's firmware, kernel and all. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher... --- (also, one more particularly…
comment by j-james · 2020-09-17 · in Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316 days) -
…the switch, and the two emulators benefit from their work too. (See the licensing exemptions here https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere#licensing ) GPU Emulation - This is probably the trickiest part of Switch emulation, and once…
comment by b0b_d0e · 2020-07-24 · in Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux -
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Atmosphère: A free reimplementation of the Nintendo Switch operating systemstory by beefhash · 2020-01-29 · 0 comments
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Atmosphere: customized firmware for the Nintendo Switchstory by crummy · 2018-10-17 · 0 comments