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Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries

Posted by timothy on from the pushy-amateurs dept.

Wraggster writes "The Sega Dreamcast console, which died an early commercial death, has recently seen some amazing new projects mainly aimed at emulation. Recently, a coder named Bluecrab released a port of the Saturn emulator called Yabause for the Dreamcast. Also, GPF (Troy Davis) has ported the excellent Visual Boy Advance (Game Boy Advance Emulator) to the Dreamcast. Finally, yesterday it was announced that Nincest (Nintendo 64 Emulator), an early N64 emulator that played demos only, has also been ported to the Dreamcast. All the projects are somewhat slow, but the achievement of the work is not to be discounted. Who says the Dreamcast is dead?"

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  1. whos to say? by Neotrantor · · Score: 4, Funny

    i'm to say. it's dead, let it go.

    1. Re:whos to say? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Thanks for the advice! Note to self: Throw all unsupported electronics equipment older than five years out the window, regardless of whatever use I can make out of it.

    2. Re:whos to say? by FrostedWheat · · Score: 3, Funny

      Time to move to the Amiga!

  2. What have I been saying?! by NEOtaku17 · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114624&cid=972 0923/

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  3. Named Bluecrab? by Omerna · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't "known as" be more appropriate? At least I hope so, otherwise his parents gave him a very unhappy childhood.

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  4. Re:NetBSD project by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny

    BSD: The perfect operating system for a dying platform. :D

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  5. Who says the Dreamcast is dead? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sega

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  6. Emulating the Emulated by 7vEn_T_7vEn · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see it now, my Xbox emulates the Dreamcast which can emulate ___________.

  7. Who says the Dreamcast is dead? by rohan_leader · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who says the Dreamcast is dead?

    Netcraft confirms it, Dreamcast is dying.

    Well, somebody had to say it. ;-)

  8. I miss the Dreamcast... by NeoGeo64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I learned how to code HTML and IRC on a Dreamcast. It was pretty fun.