Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] dreamcast audio dev
From: D. Stimits (stimits_AT_idcomm.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 21:14:32 EEST
Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> 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?
There are all kinds of extreme licensing restrictions with PS2. You
definitely do not want to waste your time with it if you are not willing
to pay huge fees and distribute binary-only.
D. Stimits, stimits_AT_idcomm.com
>
> Takashi
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