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Dreamcast Web Server Running Off Memory Card

Posted by simoniker on from the over-before-it-starts dept.

Adrian writes "I have written a new file system for Linux - to read and write files on the Sega Dreamcast's visual memory unit (VMU)- a small slab of flash memory used by the console to save game files. To see it in action - and see a DC serve some html, go to the Landslide test server - though I have no doubt that micro_http, the web server I am using (said to be the world's smallest), will result in the quickest Slashdotting in history :)" Gentlemen, start your mirrors now.

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  1. am I the only one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    who is paranoid about visiting .cx websites?

  2. Huh? by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Gentlemen, start your mirrors now.

    Huh? The content isn't the point. It's the device serving it. So, unless those mirrors are runnin' on Sega Dreamcasts, the novelty is gone.

    JHU used to have an ancient Mac IIcx(not even a IIci) running MacBSD, about the only thing it ever did(I think) was serve up a picture of the Cruise Basselope, which, for a slow-as-molassis MacBSD box, kinda makes for an appropriate mascot.

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