Was going thought some old links, and found that back in 2005-12-23 NetBSD/dreamcast was updated, and it seems that everyone has missed it.


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ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/dreamcast/

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The summer months cause a bit of confusion for most gamers. It's the only time of year the call of the outdoors equals the seductive pull of the living room couch. Beyond this, the release of high-profile games tends to slow down a little bit in preparation for the holidays. But this summer looks to be different. Especially for the PSP fans out there. Not only does your system of choice allow for gaming at the beach or local water park, it's also getting more than its share of delicious software before the holidays even start. With that, head down below to discover exactly what should occupy your time this summer. Happy gaming!

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In September, all you PAL puzzle fanatics out there will get a nice compilation of Capcom's finest titles, including Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Block Block, and Buster Bros. Collection (which includes Buster Bros, Super Buster Bros and Buster Buddies). Personally, I've never played any of those games beyond Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, but seeing as how I don't live across the pond, well...it doesn't really apply. The compilation will feature ad-hoc gameplay across all titles included and will also allow you to upload scores to a friend's console, along with a screenshot mode to prove that you've got what it takes to bust blocks with the rest of 'em.

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Heres a fantastic project for the game GTA Liberty City Stories. InvertedShadow has released a new mod that turns the game into a giant Stunt park.

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As the videogame world is increasingly under scrutiny by politicians, the press, and community groups, many in the industry are eager to knock down a few stereotypes -- whether it is that gamers are violent, lazy, hopelessly nerdy, or horny, heterosexual, and male.

The straight gamer stereotype -- or at least part of it -- is being challenged by a new survey out of the University of Illinois to study gay, lesbian, and bisexual gamers. Recent graduate Jason Rockwood designed the survey, which is the first formal, academically-approved study of sexual orientation and related issues among gamers.

The survey, which consists of 91 questions and takes 30-45 minutes to complete, is designed both to determine the presence of gay gamers and to learn about their concerns and gaming habits. The questions cover subjects such as gaming preferences, sexual identity, recent purchases, and online gaming activity.

In addition to understanding the presence of gay, lesbian, and bisexual gamers, the study should also provide a real sense of what gay gamers enjoy playing. Rockwood said some gay gamers were concerned that marketers would try to court the demographic with naïve stereotypes, similar to luring female gamers with titles like Barbie Horse Adventure. (We know plenty of girl gamers who like Quake.)

"People had talked about being gay and being a gamer, but nobody had asked them to unify those two elements and people were excited about that," Rockwood told In Newsweekly. "Some people were hesitant though, because they didn't want to be stereotyped having games that were developed to be ridiculous toward the community. They wanted both sides to be taken seriously and if there was stereotypical content it would trivialize both identities of being gay and a gamer."

Doubtless the survey will be refreshing to the many gamers who are also gay. More broadly, however, the survey is the first study of a specific gamer group -- for instance, no one has specifically surveyed female gamers, non-Caucasian gamers, older gamers, and such. While the industry closely tracks sales or readership of gaming articles, very little is known about which demographics are playing. The industry often acts on assumptions about its audience, while players themselves may not realize that many of their teammates or opponents -- or just fellow fans -- are not always male, white, or straight.

"The main purpose of the survey was to be a census," Rockwood said. "Before we can ask more intelligent questions we need to know who we are dealing with. First we need to prove that homosexual gamers even exist. Yeah it sounds ridiculous, but that's where you have to start on something like this. This survey is an attempt to quantify the existence of an invisible minority."

The survey is currently open to all gamers -- gay, lesbian, bisexual, and straight -- at www.gaymersurvey.org. ...

This article is from www.retrorevival.co.uk, issue 3 (01.02.2005), and posted here with premission

Launched in the UK on the 14th October 1999, the Sega Dreamcast was to become a legend in the very short time it graced our retail shelves, and even more so since its commercial demise, thanks to the ever popular homebrew scene that has since developed for it.

Innovation and originality was at the forefront of the Dreamcast profile and it was the most powerful home console the world had seen. It was a smaller home version of the Naomi arcade board (see boxout) and came with a 33.6k modem as standard (NTSC machines had 56K modems). Future keyboard and mouse capabilities and a great catalogue of original games was not enough to ultimately compete with the likes of the Playstation and Nintendo 64. Domination of the market by Sony, along with the imminent arrival of the next generation machines, coupled with doubt over the system (due to the failure of the 32x and the Saturn before it) eventually sealed the fate of arguably the best console ever.

After only having been on sale in the UK for 17 months, Sega announced in March 2001 that it was to stop production of the console in a bid to restructure themselves as a ‘software only’ company after some four years of financial losses. As soon as the announcement was made third party games developers began to drop off the DC bandwagon, and by the end of 2001 game production was all but over. Only hardcore publishers in Japan continued to release games after this (Ikaruga possibly being the best of the bunch), with the last game from Sega themselves being Puyo Puyo Fever in early 2004.

Even though the Dreamcast has been commercially dead for some three years or so, the emulation and homebrew scene goes from strength to strength, with some offerings being equivalent if not better than anything that has already been released.

In fact the only other console to come anywhere near as close to the Dreamcast in terms of homebrew development is
Microsoft’s XBOX. If you are looking at playing retro games on your TV, the Dreamcast is a great way to get initiated as you can pick one up for around £20 now, and the best thing about it is that you do not need to modify the machine, unlike the XBOX, to play any of the homebrew offerings.

SEGA AGAINST THE PIRATES
The DC homebrew scene was never
meant to happen as Sega had a host of
anti-piracy methods installed in the
console to protect their profits.
They had seen that cartridge based
console piracy was virtually non existent
due to the cost of buying a programmer
and blank cartridges. However it was
realised that Sega’s Next Gen machine
would need a cd based format (due to
the amount of data needed for each
game), and therefore the piracy situation
would probably change.
They decided that they needed to create
a cd system which would be hard, if not
impossible to copy, thus stopping the
appearance of pirate games as much as
they could.
They came up with their own proprietary
format (well Yamaha did and Sega
bought it from them – See boxout),
called the GDRom, which was in essence
a 1GB CDRom disc of the same physical
size.
Initially the GDRom was the perfect
method to stop the copying of games.
Blank GDRom discs were not available
(and never would be commercially), and
the blank space in between the low and
high density tracks was not by-passable
by normal CDROM drives. All was
looking good.
In April 2000 a coder by the name of
Skywalker, a member of the demo group
Hitmen, released the A.E.G -Demo.
It was shown at the Mekka & Symposium
2000, an annual demo scene meet for all
computers and consoles, held in
Fallingbostel. It was created with the
Dreamcast Debug Handler (a PC to DC
cable and software) and ran off of a
normal CDRom disc on a totally
unmodified console.
The Dreamcast world was stunned, and
so was Sega.

The A.E.G Demo gave hope to other
programmers, and they slowly started to
see what they could create, however the
Debug Handler was cumbersome to
create and use, so coders all over the
world started to look for alternatives.
Help was to arrive for them from an
unusual and unpredicted source.
Sega’s protection methods in the
Dreamcast’s hardware itself had been
breached by Skywalker and he had
proven to everyone that homebrew
software could run on an unmodified
machine. Sega, still concerned about
software piracy were comforted by the
fact that they still had the ace card up
their sleeves in the form of their GDRom
formatted discs.
For now the games themselves were safe
but it was not long before this situation
would change and ultimately pave the
way for gifted bedroom coders to show
off their talents…
MIL-CD AND BLEEM
Back in 1999 Sega launched the MIL-cd
format in Japan. It was created as an
enhanced format designed to improve on
the then current cd music media by fully
utilizing the space on the 1GB GDRom.
The idea was to allow the inclusion of
additional elements such as video clips,
image galleries and extra data not
normally found on the already
standardised CD-Extra format.
It was planned that new music cds would
include full screen video, internet
capabilities and enhanced navigational
interfaces, to take advantage of the DC’s
ability to play them. It would be this
new music cd format that would be the
thorn in the Dreamcast’s side as it would
allow the booting of code from a CDRom
bypassing the need for GDRom discs
altogether.
Fast forward to May 2000, and a small
company called Bleem Inc had wowed
onlookers at the annual E3 gaming show
with information on a new piece of
software for the DC called Bleemcast.
The demo they showed was touted as an
emulator that would not only enable you
to play PSX games on your Dreamcast,
but also enhance the experience, as it
would use portions of the consoles
hardware to dramatically improve those
games. What was remarkable was that it
was an unofficial product, but more
importantly it used the DC’s ability to ...

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