> >>> [W]hat have you been using your Dreamcast for? > >> Not much, yet. > > I've been resurrecting the old Dreamcast Linux. [...] > > Oh, I have NetBSD/dreamcast. It boots and runs. But it doesn't > provide any glue to the rendering hardware, making it pretty useless > (or, at best, irrelevant) for games. And, since the thing has no disk > of its own, it has to run diskless, or at best out of a ramdisk (the > closest thing it has to a disk is the CD).
I don't know if the NetBSD disc does this (I need to burn one, one of these days), but the Linux distro I have has a union filesystem overlaid on the CD, a number of recompiled games and even X11R6. I think the games are software rendering only, however. That said, without swap it runs out of memory pretty quick. NFS swap is ... interesting. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * [email protected] -- That's enough to make me LOL out loud. -- "Monk" ---------------------------
