Subject: [linux-audio-dev] dreamcast audio dev
From: Maarten de Boer (mdeboer_AT_iua.upf.es)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 12:15:25 EEST
Hello,
As you may have heard, SEGA discontinued the Dreamcast,
and you can buy them really cheap now. Looking at the
specs, I realized that the Dreamcast would be a great
standalone box for audio applications. And it runs Linux,
or the open source OS KallistiOS. The CPU of the Dreamcast
is a Hitachi
200 MHz SH-4 that does 1400 MFLOPS.
It's only an idea, but I wanted to share it with you.
Add a midi interface to the Dreamcast, and you could
build a great synthesizer. A tracker application would
also be nice. What is really missing is audio input
though...
Maarten
References:
http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/
http://www.segatech.com/technical/cpu/index.html
http://cadcdev.sourceforge.net/
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