Dreamcast Modem Is Reverse Engineered

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 13, 2002 @08:39AM 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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Re:The end of the world is near! by stygar · 2002-10-13 09:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Ahh, finally we know what alias Steve Gibson uses on Slashdot.
In other news... by Wakko+Warner · 2002-10-13 09:15 · 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.

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