Re: Fwd: Dreamcast porting competition

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx>]

On 02.02.2005 18:16, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 02.02.2005 16:31, Dave Fancella wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:46 am, Marcus Schreiner wrote:
> > > Or you can buy a Dreamcast at eBay for ca. 30 Euro.
> > 
> > 30Euros, that's what, 60USD these days?  I'm soooo broke.  Heh.  But since all 
> > those emulators are Windows-only, it's irrelevant whether or not I'll have 
> > the time to take this up.  I don't have an OS.  (I do, really, but I lose a 
> > little bit more of my sanity everytime I use Windows, and I really don't have 
> > much to spare anymore)
> 
> Should be closer to 40USD, but I got the impression that DCemu might work
> on Linux. It does look pretty primitive but SDL is said to work so it should
> suffice for CF (maybe minus the audio part).
> I'd expect the biggest problem to be the apparent lack of SDL-ttf (or
> Freetype, more probably) on the Dreamcast, although I don't know how much
> of an issue that is on a Japanese system...

Hm, I just got a note that we might be able to borrow a Dreamcast for the
duration of the porting effort...

Jens