Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Question about Mesa3D porting

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Brian Paul wrote:

> s.w...@if... wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I wondered what it would take to port Mesa3D on a new
> > 3D accelerated hardware (DreamCast).
> > Also is anyone aware of such a port? or perhaps is
> > someone interessed in helping?
>
> I haven't heard of anyone doing this project.
>
> I don't know any details about the DreamCast but I'd expect that a
> driver could be written.

The DreamCast is pretty well documented now - so there ought to be
enough information to go on...and it clearly does pretty good 3D
so I'd expect it to be physically capable of doing at least a
useful subset of OpenGL's rendering operations with hardware
accelleration.

Since there is now Linux and X-windows for Dreamcast - you can get
networking, keyboard and mouse - and you can pick one up for $99
now - it would certainly be *way* cool to be able to do this.

Also, putting one of my games + Linux onto a CD for Dreamcast would
give my kid *major* bragging rights at school.  So if you want to
make one little boy very happy, please contri...

I'm sorry - I went off the deep end there for a moment  :-)

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