Am Freitag den, 30. August 2002, um 03:57, schrieb Jared H:

> I have a few questions...
>
> Would it be possible to use the awesome visual rendering power of the
> dreamcast as an additional FPU through the use of drivers? Does anybody
> know if something like this is both technically possible and technically
> feasible? Any idea if work on this has ever even been attempted? What
> does everyone think would be required in order for something like this 
> to
> happen?

basically the GPU isn't really that featurerich like mordern GPUs found 
in the PS2, XBox or modern computers having these fabolous features like 
T&L and stuff. For the dreamcast they use a bit advanced Power VR2 (if I 
recall correctly) - the builtin Hitachi Super-SH CPU is responsive for 
the whole computational stuff with a peak of 1.4GFlops. The cpu has 
builtin matrix vector multiplication, vector vector addition and so on. 
Btw. can we really call the VR2 a "processing unit"

>
> I recall reading something along the lines of this both being possible
> and being done on the PC a while back, but I forget where I happened to
> read it, unfortunately.
>
> Any input would be great. =)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -J
>
>
>
--
Gruss
   Matthias Kretschmer