On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 20:26, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> I suspect a flightgear dreamcast port is outside the realm of
> possibility, but I am forwarding this to our developers list in case
> someone wants to take a whack at it.  It looks like you can get a
> dreamcast unit for pretty cheap, and it looks like the development tools
> are open source.  However, the dreamcast has pretty wimpy specs by
> today's standards and I'm not sure the amount of main RAM and video RAM
> is even close to big enough to run flightgear without severe
> modifications or rearchitecting the code.  There appears to be an SDL
> port for the dreamcast, but I suspect that there is no opengl available.
>
> If anyone is interested, feel free to run with this and contact Max
> directly for more information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Curt.

You been smoking the 'whacky-baccy?' ;-P

The Dreamcast is RISC based which may be a hurdle but the specs are *really* 
low.

SH-4 RISC CPU @ 206Mhz
8MB PowerVR2 Graphics
16MB RAM
12speed GD-ROM.

Who knows, perhaps FG would 'run' but I can't see it running 'fast' ;-)

Dave Martin

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