You are probably the most knowledgeable person to answer yourself, sadly.

One thing though: running homebrew on the dreamcast is extremely easy, you just need to burn the software on a CD-ROM in a way that will trick the console to boot it (that we call "selfboot").

One complaint I have about the timer_*_get functions is that they preform a divide. timer_ms_countdown is used to divide the value read from the hardware timer counter to figure out how many timer ticks per second. It's basically a constant value set during initialization, but since it's technicall...

Oh man
That deserves a post on Hackaday. Really fantastic build!

Public domain is not a license. Have a look at the CC0 license.

I'll answer what I can:

2. Either 16-bit raw PCM, or 4-bit raw ADPCM (the Yamaha variant).

3. CDDA has a direct path from the GD-ROM block to the sound hardware. For everything else, including WAV files on the disc, you need to copy them to RAM and steam them to the sound firmware.

My bad, I thought -Ofast was for faster compilation times (so less optimizations).

Why do you compile it with -Ofast?

I'll do it for $10k.

@kazade: I wonder if you saw this post?
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=102181&start=20#p1034105

(Actually the whole thread is super-interesting)

What about GCC 8/9?

Probably highest amongst the many things that could potentially be considered blockers is pollution of the global namespace with functions that aren't prefixed in any way... By that, I mean internal functions that you can't make static for whatever reason. I recall there being quite a few of them b...

Saffo is still playing?? I should come say hi one day.

All PAL monitors still accept 50 Hz. But I'm pretty sure that they all accept 60 Hz as well now.

Why is that hack necesary? Including <alloca.h> does not work?

The Hitachi manual is copyrighted by Hitachi, but was released to the public BY HITACHI for free so that programmers could use their processors more easily. Yes. And that's because copyright and license are two different things. For instance, all the code of KOS is copyrighted but the license allow...

One of the... uh, interesting things the library does is that it doesn't use SQs or DMA to submit data to the PVR. Since the library writes the intermediate data to a buffer between passes, you would either have to stop and copy the final results to the SQ manually, wasting CPU time, or dump everyt...

%f is for floats IIRC, for doubles you should use %lf.

Splendid!

GCC 4.9.1 might be worth a try. It gives a great boost of performance on MIPS, it should be the same for the SH4 (as both aren't really "lively" archs, it's probably due to high-level optimizations).

SiZiOUS wrote:But at least I know if I want to use KOS 2.0.1, I can't use GCC 4.8.2.

Who cares about 4.8.2? Try 4.9.0