Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] dreamcast audio dev
From: Takashi Iwai (tiwai_AT_suse.de)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 15:21:54 EEST
Hi Maarten,
At Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:15:25 +0200,
Maarten de Boer wrote:
>
> 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...
I heard that dremacast uses an extra ARM chip for audio
processing.. Anyway it's quite interesting.
Hmm, wait, how about ps2 linux, then?
Takashi
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