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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this is good news and a great achievement by Dean+Sas · 2002-10-13 08:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

but, how many people who have a DC now have gone and bought a PS2 or X-Box?
Re:Somewhat Implausable... but I'll go with it... by woogieoogieboogie · 2002-10-13 09:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"What is the number one problem for Linux newbies? I believe it is hard drvie partitioning."
In Mandrake 8.+ it involves nothing more than pushing a button. Kinda easy if you ask me.

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Re:Should have put this in the original post... by 00_NOP · 2002-10-13 09:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't need the karma. I just realised it would be good to post the link.