If you’re unfamiliar with XDA Developers, they are a forum-based community dedicated to all manner of things, but especially to hacking/modding/rooting/jailbreaking a wide variety of mobile devices. They are also a community of problem-solvers, always searching for ways to circumvent the soft and hard limits that mobile hardware and/or OS developers impose on their platforms.

The Google Nexus 7 tablet is, outwardly, a sweet-looking piece of technology. It’s a nearly-full-featured 7-inch tablet running a basically stock version of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Manufactured by ASUS, it purports to offer a fair chunk of Tegra-accelerated power, and clocks in at a very reasonable $199 price point (for the base model). One feature it lacks, however, is a microSD expansion slot; the device is limited to what flash memory it ships with (8 GB or 16 GB).

Or…is it? As one XDA regular discovered, an app called StickMount can be used to mount USB storage as a second drive on the Nexus 7 through a USB hub. And how did he decide to test whether the workaround worked?

Ultima on the go!

Naturally, by playing Ultima 3 in DOSBox.