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Now THIS is a real gaming router.

Kitten Labs found that you can run GTA: Vice City on a TP-Link TL-WDR4900 — a Wi-Fi router that contains a PowerPC-based CPU by NXP with full 36bit address space, instead of the MIPS or ARM-based processors they typically use.

Even for a 22-year-old PS2 game, it’s surprisingly responsive on the Debian Linux system when hooked up to an external AMD Radeon GPU.

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