Subject: Re: two questions regarding netBSD on dreamcast - and a P.S.
To: Joesh Juphland <part_lion@hotmail.com>
From: Andy Michaels <lego@apollo.gti.net>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 09/18/2001 17:19:34
Actually, it's the HPCSH distro, and I believe you want the COFF binaries,
but I could be wrong. Someone correct me. Also, the best kernel you'll
get is in the Dreamcast tree and is called netbsd.1.5R
Good luck!
Andy
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/hpcsh/snapshot
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/netbsd.1.5R
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Joesh Juphland wrote:
>
> First, are there any plans to run emulators like NESter, Mame, SNES, etc.,
> as programs running under netBSD, and not just standalone bootable discs ?
> I enjoy the NESter emulator, etc., very much, but I would like it more if it
> were running under the context of a userland program on a unix system. Any
> comments as to the current status of this goal are welcome.
>
>
> Second, it is my understanding that currently the dreamcast netBSD doesn't
> do much of anything ... and is somewhat slow. This confuses me since it is
> a 200+ mhz machine with a fair amount of ram (32 megs ?) I have run many
> web+mail+ftp servers with far less horsepower than this - in fact as slow as
> 33 mhz and 8 megs of ram for some mail+web+shell servers I have run.
> Comments appreciated.
>
> --joesh
>
> PS: can someone send me a current URL for a ISO of the second disk (the
> filesystem disc) I am having trouble with the HOWTO, where it says "grab the
> HPCARM tarballs and run makedev" - I could bungle around ftp.netbsd.org for
> days without knowing for sure which set of tarballs they mean, and I don't
> have a netBSD system running - does someone have a current ISO for the
> second disk sitting somewhere I can grab ? I successfully made the first
> disc and ran it, but I need the second one.
>
> thanks.
>
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