Perhaps I'm just being an asshole, but I don't think the topic of this
list is how to save a little money by not buying the right equipment.

Perhaps people think that we're trying to put NetBSD on a Dreamcast
because we're too poor to buy a real computer.  And I'm sure that some
people look at it that way.  The real reason for the effort is to give the
ability to make a NetBSD based gaming console.  Not to make a cheap
firewall or an inexpensive Distributed.net client.  Granted these are
possibilities, but you might consider that the dreamcast is a very crappy
network device, with very little ram and minimal processing power, execept
for the powervr2 graphics engine.  It's made to be a gaming console. The
Dreamcast Port is to put things like FreeCiv into a new home.  To give
amatuer graphics programmers a good home.

That aside, everything involved in getting to that point requires a lot of
software and hardware engineering.  So we get hacks like BitMASTER's IDE
controller.  IMHO, the controller isn't on topic.  A driver for it might
be.

I don't really care who posts what to the list.  But don't start getting
indignant when your OT post gets little helpful response.  If you're
wanting to save $10 on using a homemade ps2/maple dongle, checkout the
dcdev list.  I think that's a topic for that list.

n8

PS. Sorry for the rant.