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Dreamcast Modem Is Reverse Engineered

Posted by timothy on from the dialup-fever dept.

00_NOP writes "The hobbyist's favourite console - the Dreamcast - comes with one of those braindead Winmodems that have made it very difficult for those on the active DC development scene to use. But now all that is about to change. Thanks to a find on the internet and some heavy duty hacking - real modem support is almost here. This is fantastic news for the Linux and the NetBSD teams and for *nix advocates everywhere - as immediately millions more people could access these OSes and use them in a meaningful way to get online etc. Don't forget - four million plus of these things were sold in North America alone!"

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  1. OMG! Send one to Junis in Kabul by Marijuana+al-Shehi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, you mean you can hax0r one of these puppies for 56K dialup access? What's that sound? It's the sound of third-worlders cheering.

    --
    "I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq"
    -- Paul Wolfowitz, 7/21/2003
  2. The end of the world is near! by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 4, Funny

    They reverse engineered the DC modem?!

    Soon, hack attacks from Dreamcasts will bring every network in the world to their very knees, society will break down, and World War III/Armageddon will erupt, leaving 6 billion dead in its wake, save for the 144,000 virgins (many of them slashdot users) who will be saved by Jesus Christ on judgement day!

    1. Re:The end of the world is near! by stygar · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ahh, finally we know what alias Steve Gibson uses on Slashdot.

  3. But But But... by schatten · · Score: 2, Funny

    We have the good ol' DMCA to protect us from 133t h4x0rs reverse engineering products that are no longer on the market!

    blah

  4. In other news... by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the light gun for the original "Nintendo" entertainment system has been reverse-engineered for use as a pointing device by the Linux-On-Useless-Crap team! Way to go, fellas!

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  5. Re:not a winmodem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    While you are slightly correct in your pendantry,...

    I'm not quite sure what a necklace has to do with the attention to detail shown by the previous poster.

  6. Re:Math? by scott1853 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was right, it would take someone very geeky. Like one of the first 3,800 people to get a /. account :)