Alternate network and local storage for the Dreamcast

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:22:09 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.dreamcast
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Just found a very interesting Russian site discussing Dreamshell - a
homebrew OS for the Dreamcast.

They have some very nice hardware pages, including schematics for:

- serial to SD adaptor:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dc-swat.ru%2Fblog%2Fhardware%2F14.html
easily available pre-built (google "dreamcast dreamshell sd") online

- serial to Ethernet adaptor
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dc-swat.ru%2Fblog%2Fhardware%2F15.html

Obviously the SD serial adaptor is going to be slower than directly
attached hardware, but people are reporting 650KBytes/sec write speed
(out of a theoretical 1.5Mbytes/sec, which isn't bad for a $20 shipped
to your door adaptor :)