[rescue] Sick Dreamcast hacker

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:45:29PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On June 17, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > http://cadcdev.sourceforge.net/hdwrprj/navi/
> > 
> > IDE interface, ISA, custom boot roms.  I think he even has it booting
> > off the harddrive now.
> > 
> > I'm am really impressed.  Reminds me a bit of modern Amiga users...
> 
>   Yeah...but one has to ask...WHY?

Because it has more CPU power than a $50 mac and it isn't a PC? 
 
>   "Because it's cool" is a good reason to do something unusual once in
> a while.  But anyone who bases their WHOLE LIFE around that philosophy
> is, in my never-humble opinion, a waste of skin.

Personally, it I had the chops, I'd seriously consider hacking boxes
like that, then putting them to real work.

In fact, doing a similar set of hacks, and throwing in a flat touch
panel and a few more controls, could be a highly affordable method for
embeded projects.  Mount one in each wall for centralized music
control system.

Add a hacked :cuecat to one in the kitchen for an inventory control
system. 

The list of reasons why is nearly endless, but one of the most
compelling ones to choose this over more conventional methods is that
this is closer to really being your own.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd