NetBSD/Dreamcast Official Port

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday January 6, 2001 @03:02AM from the thats-pretty-sweet dept.

sparcv9 writes: "The NetBSD/sh3 developer Saitoh Masanobu, who was able to boot the NetBSD/sh3 kernel on his Sega Dreamcast last summer, has now officially forked a NetBSD/dreamcast port. The Dreamcast effort will focus specifically on supporting the Dreamcast hardware, rather than just the Super-H processor contained within. Currently, it only boots into single-user mode, and the only function hardware is the serial port, but, hey -- it's a start." This project ranks right up there with all the tivo hacking going on in my eyes. When all is said and done, we could have really inexpensive, but reasonably powerful machines to play with.

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DC the most versatile console yet... by SuiteSisterMary · 2001-01-05 22:05 · Score: 5

There's a surprising number of apps being written, by random people, for the dreamcast. MP3 players, emulators for other consoles, it's all good. Try dcemulation.com for a start.

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Shhhhh! by jhines · 2001-01-05 22:09 · Score: 5

Keep this quiet, otherwise Saddam will snap them all up for his supercomputer cluster, like he did with the PS2.