This week for Throwback Thursday we are going to take you back to 1999 to the Sega Dreamcast. Do you remember Sonic Adventure with Sonic The Hedgehog and Street Fighter?!! This system is as sick as your phat pants and rave classics. Enjoy the system a second time for only $99.99 at South City Computer includes controller and necessary cords. Share the joy of old skewl 90’s games with your kids and your friends.
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It had people lined up hours in advance of the launch:
Specs for our Super Trivia Nerds:
CPU: Hitachi SH-4
200MHz clock rate
360 MIPS (millions of instructions per second)
3D calculations (Can transform 5million polygons/second)
800+ MBytes/second bus bandwidth
1.4 billion floating-point operations per second
In comparison, the SH4 can calculate nearly 3 times more floating point OPs per second then a 450MHz Intel Pentiom II Processor. Or about 1.4 times more than next years’ 500MHz Intel Katmai or 500MHz AMD K7.
Graphics: NEC PowerVR2 DC
3 million polygons/second peak rendering rate
Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping
Point, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic Mip-map filtering
Gouraud shading
z-buffer
Colored light sourcing
Full scene anti-aliasing
Hardware-based Fog
Bump mapping
16.77 million colors
Hardware-based texture compression
Shadow and Light volumes
Super sampling
Memory:
16 MB main RAM (SDRAM)
8 MB video RAM
2 MB sound RAM
Sound:
45MHz Yamaha 32-bit RISC CPU @ 40MIPS (more powerful than total power of PSX)
Based on ARM7TMDI Processor Core DSP.
Real-time effects (Reverb, delay, etc)
64 sound channels
Surround Sound support.
Full realtime 3D sound support matching abilities of modern home theater systems.
Hardware-based audio compression
Storage:
Proprietary 1 GD-Rom disc: Capacity 1.0GB (1024MB)
12x Yamaha (1.8MB/s)
Data Save: VMS Card
Energy-saving 8-bit CPU
128K byte memory
48×32 dot monochrome LCD display
37x26mm display size
Button battery x 2, auto off function
PWM 1 channel sound source
Size: 47mm(W) x 80mm(H) x 16mm(D)/1.9″ x 3.15″ x 0.63″
Weight: 45g/1.59oz
Input:
Four controller ports.
Digital and analog directional controls
Visual Memory System data save unit
Analog Steering wheel, joystick, keyboard, mouse, and more available.
Communication:
33.6Kbytes/second modem (Original Asia/Japan)
56Kbytes/second modem (USA, Europe, Asia/Japan after Sept. 1999)
Software: The Dream Passport CD
Access’ NetFront and Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
NetFront includes support of HTML 3.2, main features of HTML 4.0, and SSL.
Dream Passport lets users access the web, e-mail, and chat.
Operating System:
Customized Microsoft Windows CE or Custom Sega OS (loaded at boot)
Video Output:
640×224 NTSC via composite video or RF (Composite cables included with console)
Available: RGB/VGA, S-Video.
Size: 190mm(W) x 195mm(H) x 78mm(D)/7.48″ x 7.68″ x 3.07″
Weight: 2.0kg/4.41lb