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
