[W]hat have
you been using your Dreamcast for?
Not much, yet.
I've been resurrecting
the old Dreamcast Linux. [...]
Oh, I have NetBSD/dreamcast. It boots and runs. But it doesn't
provide any glue to the rendering hardware, making it pretty useless
(or, at best, irrelevant) for games. And, since the thing has no disk
of its own, it has to run diskless, or at best out of a ramdisk (the
closest thing it has to a disk is the CD).
I don't know if the NetBSD disc does this (I need to burn one, one of these
days), but the Linux distro I have has a union filesystem overlaid on the
CD, a number of recompiled games and even X11R6. I think the games are
software rendering only, however.
That said, without swap it runs out of memory pretty quick. NFS swap is ...
interesting.
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