We don’t know whether a first-generation iPod could run Doom, but we know Rockbox was capable of it on other players.

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Released in late 2001, about eight months after the arrival of iTunes, the original Apple iPod music player featured a mini version of the game Breakout. Breakout was published in 1976 by Atari ...

So have we. And thanks to [Cabel] of at Panic.com, we have a rare glimpse at a prototype first generation Apple iPod. In the days before you could just stream your favorite music directly from ...

Steve Jobs was well-known to prove a point in a memorable way, and that was certainly the case when Apple was designing the first iPod. Former Apple employee Amit Chaudhary recently wrote about ...