

Since this was a Sega, it needed the ‘SEGA’ sound at the start. ended up recording his voice saying ‘JAVA!’ This plays through the Z80 on the Genesis. With a byte code compiler, an assembler, and an API for the Sega-specific hardware, set about building his demo. Already, there are a lot of platforms supported by Java Grinder, including the Commodore 64, the TI99, and thanks to some work from, the Apple IIgs This project is built around Java Grinder a Java byte code compiler that will compile classes, factories, and all the horrible Java .patterns() into assembly language. The result is Java on three billion devices and a Sega Genesis. began writing his demo and then realized adding Java would be easy on the 68000.

The SegaCD gave him an idea – while it’s not easy to burn a cartridge and play homebrew games on a real Genesis console, everyone has a CD burner somewhere. A few years ago, ’s friend gave him an old Sega Genesis with the very cool and somewhat rare SegaCD drive attached.
