Is this a development machine of DC?

[YZB]

Can not this thing be got at present? If can get, how much does it want $?
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Sustain , can only use on that computer permitted in that piece that ask down , pursuing in addition?

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[sithmaster]

Yeah that looks like the dev pc and i think someone once bought one on ebay for $750 though it could be different know, if you can find one.

[ßüboni¢ $oñic]

last 1 i saw was 100bux

[Mental2k]

$100 an it comes with visual C++, worth it entirely i'd say.

[quzar]

The cheapest I've ever seen one go was 300. I watch fairly closely because I lost my chance to have a Set 4 (that one in particular is a set 5 with the GD burner) for 150 and gave it up. The GD-Rom usually doesn't come with it and can sell for as much as 300-400 on it's own as well.

[Xiaopang]

yeah it's a developers machine. i saw the exact same pictures on a website that even offered to download the manuals. very interesting to read those, although they're very technical and only of good use for coders


(that one in particular is a set 5 with the GD burner)
although having a gd-burner is quite cool, you'd need to have gd-r's to burn. do you know where to get these?

[Mark30001]

Yep, that's a Dreamcast Dev Box up theres. Where were you guys when there was a Katana GD-Writer on eBay with a blank GD-R? *cries*

There's currently a Dev box on eBay, but these things may end up quite pricey...

[Xiaopang]

Yep, that's a Dreamcast Dev Box up theres. Where were you guys when there was a Katana GD-Writer on eBay with a blank GD-R? *cries*

There's currently a Dev box on eBay, but these things may end up quite pricey...

only one gd-r? nice, but still pretty useless if you can't get more

[Zion]

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Sega-Naomi-GD-ROM-drive-and-DIM-Board-N-R_W0QQitemZ250017862673QQihZ015QQcategoryZ13718QQs sPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i dont fully know what that is, can someone tell me?

[quzar]

The Naomi was the arcade hardware that paralelled the Dreamcast. The original Naomi used cartridges (for faster loading times) and had 2x the main memory, 2x the graphics memory and 4x the sound memory(because it didn't have streaming disc sound like the Dreamcast).

What you have there is the GD-ROM attachment with the DIMM board. After a few years they started releasing games on GD-ROMs. In order to get this to work, you attached the DIMM board onto the cartridge interface, then the GD-ROM to that. The DIMM board had inside of up a bunch of banks of ram (Dual Inline Memory Modules) similar to the ram in a PC, as well as a hardware key that was used for copy protection. When the machine booted up, it would read the GD-ROM once and copy it entirely into the ram, that way, both the disc and the read assembly would have MANY times their normal lifespan (most DCs have failed by now due to the gd-rom, imagine if it was on 24/7 in an arcade).

It's not really too rare, as it's still being used in the arcades today. More of a practical, than collectors item.

[cisc0kidd]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190054986164

[slackmessiah]

I picked up a Dreamcast Dev Kit a few months ago. It's missing it's cover, harddrive & the external GDrom writer.

Been hoping to get something i could use to make a bootable harddrive for the unit.

Anyone have any ideas? Or even better, anyone have copies of the dev kit disks?

Since the dc can boot linux, I figured at the very least i could probably use that linux to get the dev kit working as a computer or something.

anyone have any ideas or software that would work?

I might even be willing to sell the unit.

[Mark30001]

What set revision is it (The first 3 numbers of the serial number located on the bottom of the unit)?

These dev units usually come separately from an HKT-04 Katana GD-Writer. Requirements for the development box are an installed Adaptec SCSI controller (1542, 1742, 2940, 2940U, 2940UW, or 3940), with an external SCSI connector, two 50-pin SCSI terminators on the SCSI-B & GD-Writer ports, VGA or RCA cables for connection to a television screen, and Sega Dreamcast Controllers. To get anything to boot off the hard drive, you'll need the Katana Development Software installed.