Subject: Re: sound device.
To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
From: Drew P. Vogel <dvogel@intercarve.net>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 05/15/2002 19:02:12
I would if 1) I had any time 2) could afford a BBA for my DC and most
importantly 3) new anything about sound at all :/

I'll definitely use it if it existed though.

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>On Wednesday 15 May 2002 9:31 pm, Mike Miller wrote:
>> >Has there been any attempt yet to get the dreamcast
>> >working for the DC ?
>> >
>> >I think it could make a kick ass little OGG/MP3 appliance.
>>
>> Actually, there are a number of small projects to do this for ogg/mp3
>> on CDR over at:
>>
>> http://www.boob.co.uk/usertools.html
>>
>> I don't think any directly support the BBA, but you might be able to
>> use the web browser software to connect to a server and get streaming
>> audio or something similar...
>>
>> I know there was a prototype audio driver that somebody got working
>> under linux a while back, but I don't recall if it ever got past
>> alpha phase...
>>
>Well, I wrote it and it certainly got past the alpha phase :->
>
>It works fine, it could be better - if soemone reliably hacked the DC's G2 DMA
>- but will play MP3s without any problem.
>
>I offered to assist someone/anyone on this list write a netbsd driver but was
>told to more or less get lost -----
>
>"The dreamcast project itself was necessarily finite. Once the machine
>support was written, what more were you expecting?"
>
>However, seeing that this project might have moved from the past imperfect to
>the present tense again my offer still stands. Anybody want to take me up on
>it?
>
>Adrian
>
>
>

--Drew Vogel