The Official Dreamcast Homebrew File Archive is Now Open

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September 6th, 2006, 00:20
wraggster

The Official Dreamcast Homebrew File Archive is Now Open

DC News is proud to announce the grand opening of the Dreamcast Homebrew File Archive.

An archive that features:

Applications 33
Boot Loaders 3
Commercial Ports 29
Compilation CD Images 6
Emulators 138 Files
Games 167 Files
Interpreters 10 Files
Tech Demos 59 Files
Tools 12 Files
VMU 1 File

Thats a total of 458 releases of Homebrew for the Dreamcast that has kept a strong base of fans going since the early demise of the console at the turn of the millenium.

The archive contains emulators for MAME, Super Nintendo, Gameboy, Nes, Spectrum, GBA and many more.

Commercial games that have been ported to the Dreamcast include Quake, Doom, Heart of the Alien , Aleph One to name but a few.

The archive contains the download, a description, a screenshot and the ability to comment on each release. Coders can use the archive to upload their releases and know they are in a safe place.

The thanks for this archive go to Darksaviour69 the webmaster of DCNews UK, Martin the Server Admin and also Metafox, Quzar, SouLLy, GPF, Bluecrab, dawd, Mark30001.

The new archive marks the official closing of the DCHomebrew site and the existance of DCNews UK has the premier Dreamcast news site along with the Dreamcast Homebrew File Archive
September 6th, 2006, 00:47
Mark30001

I'd like to say congrats in finally getting it up!

Great job to all those involved!
September 6th, 2006, 04:47
SnoopKatt

It's finally here :)
September 6th, 2006, 06:50
ron

Very good news. Thanks a lot by the effort.
September 6th, 2006, 09:27
LTK

Great news!

Maybe could be a good idea to have some place to source code, programming tools and libs, toolchain script.
September 6th, 2006, 09:46
Darksaviour69

Quote:

Originally Posted by LTK

Great news!

Maybe could be a good idea to have some place to source code, programming tools and libs, toolchain script.

well the next step was to make a cfiles database with all the source code etc, but this time i would need a lot more help with it ( not so sure about toolchains etc ;) )
September 6th, 2006, 12:53
ßüboni¢ $oñic

u need us to host the files or sumthin?
September 6th, 2006, 13:48
Darksaviour69

no, help populating the database ( adding files), but first i need to setup a new cfiles database
September 6th, 2006, 17:18
SiZiOUS

Thanks for this cool feature and sorry if i haven't helped yet. My english is very bad (but now, it's maybe a little better). If you think this crappy english's correct, i can help the staff to manage this section. Just PM me (DS69 or other).