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I love that machine. My next project is to buy a second one, so that I can tweak Linux and BSD for it (There's no way I would hack up my black ltd. ed. Dreamcast). If you like soldering, you can even add an interface for a NIC and an IDE hard drive.

Dreamcast Projects

Truely, the Dreamcast is one of the greatest little game boxes ever made. In my opinion, it was way ahead of its time, and represents some of the finest engineering ever seen in a game console. Even though the Gamecube and X-Box outpower the little Dreamcast in many way, the little DC could still handle most of today's games without a problem. It will live on as a legend, especially with all of the homebrew DC development that is keeping it alive.

Dreamcast Emulation Page

I'm glad that I still have about 60 games, most of which I still haven't had time to play. :) But when I do get a chance to play my Dreamcast, it usually represents some of the fiest gaming that I have seen for years. It was becoming a perfect mecca of gaming goodness, and yet, most people didn't seem to notice, or care... They were proccupied with hype and name-brands.

...as mentioned even on the guy's web page:

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bITmASTER32 made an IDE interface and Kiyoshi Ikehara built released a driver for NetBSD a long time ago. What this guy did was nothing special. They have been Lan booting NetBSD on a dreamcast and using the HDD (albeit slow, 800k/sec) for a while now.

Ye ask, and ye shall receive. A pair of guys are doing such work, and their pages can be found here and here. As far as I know, they work independantly of one another with no contact, but they're both making very nice progress and they link back to one-another's sites and work.

http://homepages.compuserve.de/bITmASTER32/dc/dc-i de.html

With pictures, etc.

this is it...stupid tag