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<a href="./">Back to the index</a> |
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<h2>Dreamcast emulation</h2> |
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<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a> |
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<li><a href="#netbsd_generic_md">NetBSD/dreamcast GENERIC_MD</a> |
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<li><a href="#netbsd_live_cd">NetBSD/dreamcast Live CD</a> |
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<li><a href="#linux_live_cd">Linux/dreamcast Live CD</a> |
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<p><br> |
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<a name="intro"></a> |
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<h3>Introduction:</h3> |
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This page contains information about the Dreamcast emulation mode in |
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GXemul. It's not a very long page, but I thought it would be best to |
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gather everything Dreamcast-specific in one place. |
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<p>My main goal with Dreamcast emulation is to let <a |
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href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/dreamcast/">NetBSD/dreamcast</a> run, |
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similar to how it runs on a real machine. I am also experimenting with |
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other programs, such as Linux and simple demo programs that use KOS, and |
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Marcus Comstedt's tutorial programs. These sometimes work to a certain |
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<p>Games (especially commercial games) are very unlikely to run. |
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<a name="netbsd_generic_md"></a> |
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<h3>NetBSD/dreamcast GENERIC_MD:</h3> |
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<p>It is possible to run <a |
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href="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/dreamcast/">NetBSD/dreamcast</a> in |
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GXemul. A NetBSD ramdisk kernel can reach userland, however, no network |
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<a href="20061029-netbsd-dreamcast.png"><img src="20061029-netbsd-dreamcast_small.png"></a> |
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<p>(The photo on the right shows NetBSD/dreamcast running both on a real |
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<p>Download the 3.1 kernel here:<pre> |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/dreamcast/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz">ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/dreamcast/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz</a> |
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<p>Start NetBSD/dreamcast using the following command line:<pre> |
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<b>gxemul -XEdreamcast netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz</b> |
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<h3>NetBSD/dreamcast Live CD:</h3> |
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<p>According to <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2005/04/25/0000.html">http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2005/04/25/0000.html</a>, |
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Rui Paulo has made available a NetBSD/dreamcast Live CD. It can run in |
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<p>The image is available here:<pre> |
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<a href="http://netbsd.student.utwente.nl/rpaulo/">http://netbsd.student.utwente.nl/rpaulo/</a> |
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<p><font color="#ff0000">NOTE (February 2007):</font> |
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The ISO image seems to have been removed from the server, |
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but you should be able to create one from scratch using |
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<p>Only the ISO9660 filesystem image is needed:<pre> |
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<a href="http://netbsd.student.utwente.nl/rpaulo/livecd.raw.bz2">http://netbsd.student.utwente.nl/rpaulo/livecd.raw.bz2</a> |
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Uncompress the CD image (using bunzip2), and type the following command |
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(The <tt><b>c</b></tt> disk image option is necessary to treat the raw |
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<p>A Linux/dreamcast Live CD ISO image can be found here:<pre> |
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