On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:49:52PM -0600, Rob Healey wrote:

 > 	A VMU storage unit, a buzz/vibrate device, a microphone, NASTY looking
 > 	guns (we could use them to shoot down DDOS attacks?! B^) ) and memory
 > 	storage without the screen and buttons. Are these accessed through
 > 	the G2 bus or something else?

The VMU/memory units are NV storage for game files.  The vibrate device,
as well as the VMU, are accessed as a sub-unit of the controller, which
is on the Maple bus.

 > 	Anybody know of a hack to increase main memory from 16M? While my
 > 	NetBSD/Amiga works fine in 16M I assume it will be quite squeeky for
 > 	a RISC CPU. Hmmm, I hear the original genesis used Amiga derived
 > 	ASIC's, any of that line make it in to the Dreamcast? I saw one
 > 	development kit that was AmigaOS based.

The SuperH is designed as an embedded CPU -- the code density isn't too
bad.  But shared libraries would help a lot.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>