Upgrading the Memory on a DreamCast?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday January 8, 2002 @02:07AM from the reviving-old-hardware dept.

dknight asks: "Ok, a friend of mine recently has his computer die on him. Rather than go out and buy a computer, we thought we'd try converting his DreamCast to fit the bill. We've got the keyboard and mouse, and now have Linux running on it successfully(we're working on getting the network adapter). The problem we're running into, however, is that it's REALLY painfully slow. I'm figuring this is due to the meager 16 Megs of RAM it comes with. My question is: Is it possible to upgrade the RAM on a DreamCast? Has anyone else attempted this feat?" I highly doubt this is possible, but if this can be done, this might breathe new life into those unused DC consoles that are lying around.

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Re:Sometimes.. by AnalogBoy · 2002-01-08 04:13 · Score: 3, Funny

I love this analogy. Love it, love it, love it. Can I steal it? Is it an open source quote? :) GPL'ed even?

I can't wait to see the first person clam they made a production SQL server from their Dreamcast, PS2, or watch. From there its just a short step to "We replaced all our Ultra Enterprise 4500, 5500's with Dreamcasts in a Beowulf cluster to serve our Production financial database at [insert large financial corp here]."