Free Dreamcast Development System Started

Axel M. writes: " The Hitmen guys of PSX coding fame developed a piece o'hardware to code for the Dreamcast. They even wrote the first little demo. See this page for screenshots & pics or this new page which announces the second (smaller) version of the hardware using the PSX CommsLink ISA card."

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Linux wanted a console.. here ya go!

[cybrthng]

Well, here is the Chance. A 200mhz CPU, plenty of memory, plenty of horsepower to throw out roughly 5,000,000 polygons.

Linux already cross compiles and boots on MIPS. With the CE Linux varients i'm sure you can dump that on CD fairly quickly and use nice big VMU cards to store data/variables or whatever.

Hell, go to japan, buy the 64 meg VMU, the 10/100 megabit ethernet adaptor and a 64meg vmu and you have a cheap/compact webserver. Throw linux on there or write a java webserver once the JDK is finally released

The ZIP disk option is even coming out. The beginings are being laid, and the backend work is already done.

So hack away.. I would love to see the days of the likes of Future Crew and such. Nothing like having a finite piece of hardware with infinate uses :)

Oh yeah. You can go out and get a DC at buy.com for 179.00 signup for 1 month of sega.net trial (free) and get a $50.00 rebate so you get a nice system for 120 bucks. Get on ebay and get a DC with games for 200 bucks. They're affordable, plenty of games and with stuff like this, another powerfull machine to hack away on.

Umm, hardly a development tool

[Jon Erikson]

Yeah, sure you can upload patches onto the Dreamcast's VMU using this, but that hardly makes it a tool for coding anything more than quick hacks and patches. Nobody in their right mind would attempt to write anything more than a simple demo on one of these, and I don't think that was ever the intention.

No, this is just a crack box really, like the Game Genie or its relatives.

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Jon E. Erikson