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Dreamcast demos

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I have transfered Variance by Haujobb and Delicious by Yodel and watching them in a real Dreamcast a friend has borrowed me. They were CD images, I burned them with Disc Juggler, Mode 2 CD-XA and they worked fine. How about the 256b or 4kb intros though? Can I burn the files at the same way? I am afraid to waste more CDs and also wondered if I can burn many diferrent demos or at least the tiny intros at the same CD and have a file selector to load and run them under Dreamcast?
added on the 2003-07-19 12:52:04 by Optimus Optimus
the easiest for small demos is to pick up some "coder cable" ... you can then upload the binaries (not the isos) to run them on the machine.

alternatively yeah, i think some kind of file manager boot image exists, look at dreamcast emulation sites.
added on the 2003-07-19 14:26:46 by _-_-__ _-_-__
afair, there was some sorta linux-alike os for dreamcast even...
added on the 2003-07-19 19:09:07 by bhead bhead
Well first: A Blank CD-R is approx 50ct nowadays. So you can't really talk about "WASTE" there. Really..

Second: I think the best Demo on DC is that VARIANCE. And even this one is not a veeeery good Demo. It's nice but well...

Consoles are not good for Demos. :/
added on the 2003-07-19 22:16:15 by elend elend
My favorite one is Delicious.
added on the 2003-07-19 22:20:33 by Optimus Optimus
i would appreciate seeing some more demos for the dreamcast (hint!) :)
added on the 2003-07-19 23:13:11 by hfr hfr
well, there ARE only like two (the aforementioned) demos for the dreamcast.

and uh, "...", it's not just linux-alike, it's linux. oh and there's some bsd too. funny shit, really.

but yeah, optimus, there is some kind of menu system. just can't remember what it's called. all i know is that i've used it.

oh and that haujobb demo is fucking terrible :)
rm: your mother is fucking terrible ;)

but feel free to motivate us to do something better for the dreamcast :)
added on the 2003-07-20 15:40:50 by hfr hfr
I happen to like both Delicious and Variance, and one of the reasons I was quite pleased with my Dreamcast was the fact that I could see them "fo' real" on it for a change :)

As for "Consoles are not good for demos"... I dunno... At least you know what you're developing for, and it's unlikely to change in the future.

Kind of like a C64 with annoying gamepads :)
added on the 2003-07-21 00:42:11 by Shifter Shifter
Is there a PAL version of Delicious by the way?
added on the 2003-07-21 12:01:42 by Scali Scali
I never tried .sbi-files but it appears to be what you're after:

http://website.lineone.net/~don.hopkins/selfboot-sbi.html
added on the 2003-07-22 01:07:15 by violator violator
ohh yeah and also check out:

http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/
added on the 2003-07-22 01:09:17 by violator violator
There is a great collection of demos, ported games (doom, etc.) all ready for selfbooting! Yeyh!!!
added on the 2003-07-22 16:54:47 by Optimus Optimus
I don't suppose there were ever any NTSC fixes for the Haujobb demos? I liked what parts RAN in NTSC ... but couldn't see it all. Course I never tried on a vgabox, I should do that...

as for OS's, NetBSD is still the only real OS available for it. the Linsux derivative never really worked. (Yes, I tried.)
strange really, i tried the linux thing as well and uh, it DID work...

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