I'm glad you got to get that off your chest, I bet you've been waiting a
couple months to rattle off about the obvious.

Here's how I see it, there's a bunch of people porting PC software to a
dreamcast.  And a keyboard is an integral part of a PC, even it being
hardware.

Also, there is *nothing* going on in this list in the past few days or so.
If there was pertinent information happening, yeah, I'd look elsewhere,
but there isn't.  Plus, everyone likes getting email that isn't spam.

And lasty, yes, you are being an asshole, and I feel shamed that we share
the same first name.

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Nathan Mahon wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
>