Sega Dreamcast running NetBSD, is it useful? : Ep 004

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What made the SEGA Dreamcast great? What is a GD-ROM? Is running an alternative operating system on the console worth it today? Also a quick look at one of my favorite games, Wild Metal Country.

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@_Cryo_ 5 жыл бұрын

Kudos for the well worn NetBSD t-shirt, as well as reviving the DC interest.

@RetroAxis 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, and also a personal thanks for all your work in the NetBSD Community . Glad to promote the project and the more unique ports. I am planning a follow-on video that expands on the first one. Stay tuned!

@danielcogburn4355 5 жыл бұрын

Can controller button-presses be interpreted by netbsd? Can it send other graphics to the vmu? Are graphics on-screen possible through framebuffer? What about sixel-graphics? What about X-windows? Has someone ported Simon Tatham's portable puzzle collection to dc+netbsd? Let's have a look at that 10/100 broadband adapter? Can you use it to ssh into a desktop machine? Maybe it's just me but i think we need a follow-up video? ;-D even if it's just to show using some terminal games... tetris? can it run Frotz? So many questions... ;-D

@RetroAxis 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comments. OK, I am willing to put together a follow-up video. I will need to reconfigure the setup to load from the network via NFS, as the livecd will be limiting (ie: no way to install ports). I will also have to research these topics to find out the capability with graphics. It might also be a useful experiment to run Linux on the Dreamcast as a feature comparison. In other words, does Linux implement more, less, or the same? Alright, give me some time to put it together. Thank you for the suggestion.

@mario_9431 5 жыл бұрын

This is really cool! If I will ever buy a dreamcast I will do this! It would be fun to see if it could run any terminal games/apps or even Xorg and a lightweight Window Manager (like Openbox or i3wm)

@jazzz4988 2 жыл бұрын

Take my like. You totally deserve it ♥

@Vnix 4 жыл бұрын

5:30 THANK YOU!

@kingcrimson234 2 жыл бұрын

I was planning on using my DC as an IRC server for a few of my nerd friends to hang out and chat on. Seems like a reasonable use of it.

@realdragonrude 5 жыл бұрын

cool experiment one of my favorites for sega dreamcast is record of lodos war

@PauloConstantino167 5 жыл бұрын

Yes its my favorite game too! totally underrated gem.

@runneypo 4 жыл бұрын

It could most likely be used as a graphics programming learning tool on a console although perhaps emulation is better for this purpose seeing how slow it is

@kalebyassararafa9673 2 жыл бұрын

I need Hide this dreamcast on start up it´s possible?

@CodyShell 2 жыл бұрын

man there was a brand new unopened dreamcast keyboard and mouse at my local thrift store around 10 years ago. im so upset to this day that I didnt get it

@pweddy1 3 жыл бұрын

Look up the specs of the systems Unix was built on. Compared to an early 1970s PDP 11 this thing is a beast! 16Megs would be the size of a HD for those. The main problem this has is it needs an HD. Other than that it pretty reasonable for an old BSD machine.

@herdware 5 жыл бұрын

I highly recommend using the IP upload slave from Marcus Comstedt's site and running with NFS root (see NFS_BOOT_BOOTSTATIC) in options(4)) if you want to explore more.

@RetroAxis 5 жыл бұрын

Found the page here (mc.pp.se/dc/ipslave.html) Will look into it.

@Spectral69 4 жыл бұрын

upload a cdi of ur disk?

@ThePolicenaut 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting video ,with the gdemu the load times should be reduced

@raretapes8057 Жыл бұрын

if it can run emacs it's useful. :)

@nottobay6768 4 жыл бұрын

It was never about why it was about why not.

@josephrowe2202 3 жыл бұрын

A) in no way shape or form...or even alternate reality, was the Dreamcast competing with Jaguar. The Jaguar had been dead for over 3 years and it never really competed with anything even when Atari was around. B) Does this guy blink? Is he human?