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* Christopher John Thomas <christopher.thomas@rogers.com> on Wed, Jan 09, 2=
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>=20
>   An accelerated driver of some kind for the PVR2 chipset in the Dreamcast
> would be a bonus if we want to port anything with a higher polycount than
> Quake I to Dreamcast. Having worked in the graphics industry, I know
> exactly how much work would be needed to reverse-engineer the required
> register and coding information, this would be Really, Really Useful to
> quite a number of people, and clean-rooming existing libraries might be an
> option (my store-bought games have a copyright notice but no draconian
> EULA).
>=20
>   I haven't heard a peep about this for *either* free *NIX branch.
>=20

Everything I reverse-engineer ends up in LinuxDC (in one form or another).
I've been reversing Sega/M$ DC software for months now, but it's not a
trivial process and the rewards can only be truly seen when aggregated.

>=20
>   Is there a great project in the works that I'm not aware of, or do
> people just not care very much about using the Dreamcast outside of text
> mode?
>=20

Ever heard of KOS?  It may be that great project if you're looking for an
"operating system" that supports a huge portion of the DC hardware.  I
can't speak for NetBSD, but LinuxDC is steadily gaining more and more
low-level hardware support.  I'd go into specifics, but I don't feel like
getting flamed at the moment.  If you're interested contact me off-list or
stop by #linuxdc on irc.openprojects.net.

M. R.

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