Symbian On Nokia Lives Again, In 2026
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Symbian On Nokia Lives Again, In 2026
Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for the daddy of Symbian phones, the Nokia N8, and [Janus Cycle] is giving it a spin.
For many people, the smartphone era began when the first Apple iPhones and Android devices reached the market, but the smartphone itself can be traced back almost two decades earlier to an IBM device. In the few years before the birth of today’s platforms many people even had smartphones without quite realizing what they had, because Nokia, the market leader in the 2000s, failed to make their Symbian platform user friendly in the way that Apple did. The N8 was their attempt to produce an iPhone competitor, but its lack of an on-device app store and that horrific Windows-based installation system meant it would be their last mass-market flagship before falling down the Microsoft Windows Phone rabbit hole.
In the video below the break he takes a pair of N8s and assembles one with that beautiful camera fully working, before installing the new ROM and giving it a spin. We get to see at last what the N8 could have been but wasn’t, as it gains the last Symbian release from Nokia, and the crucial missing app store. Even fifteen years later it’s a very slick device, enough to make us sorry that this ROM won’t be made for the earlier N-series sitting in a drawer where this is being written. We salute its developers for keeping the N8 alive.
Oddly, this isn’t the only Nokia from that era that’s received a little 2020s love.
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@lisyarus to put it another way, the version on the left looks like it is like 20% of the way to being really slick diorama water, and the version on the right looks like it is 80% of the way to being windwaker water.
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@eniko (classics include Big Top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Top_(video_game) , Prince of Persia 1 and 2, Doom, ZOOL and ZOOL2, Bananoid, Future Wars, Lemmings, Pipe Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania , Mortal Kombat 3, North vs South, Secret Service II)
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Lewdbrarian: Will that be all, sir?
Me: I... The other day I was thinking of an old jav idol... The one with the sexy...
Lewdbrarian: That is Sally Yoshino, sir.
Me: And... do we perhaps have any vi
Lewdbrarian: You should look in the gray drive, sir. I trust you remember the password.
Me: yes. yes.
Lewdbrarian: We do not have any video. But there are pictures saved from usenet. Just look under ..\Alt\Binaries\Pictures\Jav\Y\
Me: Thank you.
Lewdbrarian: Glad to serve, sir.
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@eniko OK so here's SOME that I keep in my DOSbox because of nostalgia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackthorne which I loved for the “shoot behind your back” gesture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiendish_Freddy%27s_Big_Top_o%27_Fun where you have to play circus tricks while a capitalist sabotages your actions because he wants to buy the circus.
HoverTank, a shareware game that you can find here https://cheesysoftware.net/alphaomega/index.html that allows hotseat 1vs1 play (it's tanks shooting at each other, very fast, very funny sounds)
and then some classics.
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@lisyarus I like the depth dependent water better. I think it wants to be fancier though, like maybe fake caustics in the shallows, blur the depths, something on the shore line, some surface wiggle + some specular highlights.
I think the reason the plain version doesn't feel like it is missing anything is because it doesn't really look like water beyond being symbolically recognizable as semantic water. The plain version would actually be better if it was opaque imo.
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Some other #MastoBlaster screenshots, from the emulator
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Lewdbrarian: I suggest a quick search to confirm, since this particular memory is over 40 years old by now.
Me (after check): Yup. Yup. It checks out.
Lewdbrarian: I am glad I could be of service, sir.
Me: Hey... Uh... You wouldn't happen to remember where we saw that last now, would you?
Lewdbrarian: I am so very sorry, sir. Records of VHS titles specially those not fully watched have been purged. Since we no longer own any tapes, or devices to play them. I hope you understand.
