Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Dreamcast porting competition]

2005-02-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:10:32 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dave Martin wrote: The Dreamcast is RISC based which may be a hurdle but the specs are *really* low. ..so is his business morale: Sega quit making these toys 4 years ago, the Debian Linux port died 4

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Dreamcast porting competition]

2005-02-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
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.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Dreamcast porting competition]

2005-02-01 Thread Dave Martin
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Dreamcast porting competition]

2005-02-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Martin wrote: You been smoking the 'whacky-baccy?' ;-P I prefer the tomacco. 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Dreamcast porting competition]

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Spott
Dave Martin wrote: 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. I think the CPU is not the limiting factor - FlightGear actually 'runs' pretty nice on a 195 MHz MIPS R1 (RISC)