Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] dreamcast audio dev
From: Frank Barknecht (barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 15:53:34 EEST
Maarten de Boer hat gesagt: // Maarten de Boer wrote:
> 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...
Oh man, you're telling my dreams to the world? I just recently
bought a used DC for nearly nothing [and put an end to useless
MS-Windows booting for gameing] The DC is a really nice box and
already has an active developers community with Linux and BSD
running on the DC. But except a mp3-player there are no decent
audio apps for the DC. It would be so cool to use a DC instead
of the usual laptop for performances, wouldn't it?
bye,
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