Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the before-and-after-ready-to-rumble dept.
Daikak writes "Just saw this news post on Zophar's about a guy running Linux on his Dreamcast."Update: 07/16 9:37 AM by CN: Looks like the links here ended up broken, so they've been removed. Who reads old articles anyway?
Re:And the benefit of this would be?
by
Kagato
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· Score: 5
Well, the largest benifit would be people could actually port software over to the dream cast with out paying any fees. Sega sells the dream cast at cost or less than cost in order to get people to buy the system. The games in turn, which probally cost 3 dollars in materials, and maybe 10 dollars in RD also pay sega a percentage. Just to get your hands on the development information costs you an arm and a leg. Now if you're activision, or capcom this really doesn't matter.
If you're joe shmoe user then this is a big deal. You could actually make your own shareware dreamcast game. People could download it over the internet. We go back to the days of the Apple II and C64 where big game makers started out of someones basement.
From a business stand point this is also a "Good Thing" (TM). If a number of game systems run Linux (Dreamcast, PS2, etc.) then the cost of porting could become cheaper. A company like Loki would do one main port of a game, then a could mini ports to tweak the games. The plus side to the linux comunity is games could be avalible on Linux x86 before the windows version is complete.
well, what if people started writing games for dreamcast booting on a linux kernel (after all the OS can reside on every CD or GDROM, like the almost never used winCE): wouldn't that make gaming for linux desktops way closer to reality? we could have a set of drivers a la DirectX as an abstraction layer that would make the difference between PC hardware and Dreamcast hardware almost irrelevant....
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There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
Damm, now we have "of course it runs Linux.."
by
jon_c
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· Score: 5
this pisses me off as a BSD supporter. NetBSD is supposta be the number #1 ported OS, and here we have linux working on dreamcast before NetBSD?
This reminds me of the kernel patch that is out that allows you to use your joystick to properly shutdown your system in the event of keyboard/network lockout.
I wonder if this is in the Dreamcast kernel?
Bob: "Hey, you have to see this great combo I mastered for Ryu!"
Bill: "Ok, fire away!"
Bob: "Ok, Up, Up, Down, Down-Left, Back, A+B"
Linux: "This system is going down for a reboot NOW!"
Bob: "Err, oops."
1. I loaded the Palm OS on my cell phone so I could transfer messages between my pants pockets!
2. I have apache loaded into the ROMs in my floor lamp, plugged in to the clapper(TM). Site up!(clap,clap), site down!(clap, clap), Apache!
3. My Tivo runs Oracle to ensure that I'll have a robust and scalable platform with which I'll never record anything due to the difficulty of entering a freakin' date field!
4. My Toyota runs Linux because I heard that you don't crash as much with Linux. Sounds good to me!
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People shape laws. Not the other way around.
Kernel site /.'ed - mirror
by
Xofer+D
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· Score: 5
Zophar's mirroring the kernel stuff now, so you might want to try using the "100Mbps of bandwidth" behind these links:
Slashdot Mirror
Well, the largest benifit would be people could actually port software over to the dream cast with out paying any fees. Sega sells the dream cast at cost or less than cost in order to get people to buy the system. The games in turn, which probally cost 3 dollars in materials, and maybe 10 dollars in RD also pay sega a percentage. Just to get your hands on the development information costs you an arm and a leg. Now if you're activision, or capcom this really doesn't matter.
If you're joe shmoe user then this is a big deal. You could actually make your own shareware dreamcast game. People could download it over the internet. We go back to the days of the Apple II and C64 where big game makers started out of someones basement.
From a business stand point this is also a "Good Thing" (TM). If a number of game systems run Linux (Dreamcast, PS2, etc.) then the cost of porting could become cheaper. A company like Loki would do one main port of a game, then a could mini ports to tweak the games. The plus side to the linux comunity is games could be avalible on Linux x86 before the windows version is complete.
Just some stuff that should get you wondering.
well, what if people started writing games for dreamcast booting on a linux kernel (after all the OS can reside on every CD or GDROM, like the almost never used winCE): wouldn't that make gaming for linux desktops way closer to reality? we could have a set of drivers a la DirectX as an abstraction layer that would make the difference between PC hardware and Dreamcast hardware almost irrelevant....
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
this pisses me off as a BSD supporter. NetBSD is supposta be the number #1 ported OS, and here we have linux working on dreamcast before NetBSD?
fudge.
just makes me made.
this is my sig.
This reminds me of the kernel patch that is out that allows you to use your joystick to properly shutdown your system in the event of keyboard/network lockout.
I wonder if this is in the Dreamcast kernel?
Bob: "Hey, you have to see this great combo I mastered for Ryu!"
Bill: "Ok, fire away!"
Bob: "Ok, Up, Up, Down, Down-Left, Back, A+B"
Linux: "This system is going down for a reboot NOW!"
Bob: "Err, oops."
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Mirrors of the screenshots are here, here, here, and here.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
1. I loaded the Palm OS on my cell phone so I could transfer messages between my pants pockets!
2. I have apache loaded into the ROMs in my floor lamp, plugged in to the clapper(TM). Site up!(clap,clap), site down!(clap, clap), Apache!
3. My Tivo runs Oracle to ensure that I'll have a robust and scalable platform with which I'll never record anything due to the difficulty of entering a freakin' date field!
4. My Toyota runs Linux because I heard that you don't crash as much with Linux. Sounds good to me!
People shape laws. Not the other way around.
- README
- 1ST_READ.BIN
- dc_linux.elf
- IP.BIN
In other news, flagging sales of the Dreamcast were given a significant boost...The Signal/Noise ratio can be improved in two ways. Remaining silent is the OTHER way.
Says here that it is available in binary form only. No source is available. Do we have a GPL violation here?
Burn Hollywood Burn