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Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

Yes, here at Old VCR we live in the past, when RISC Unix workstations still ruled the earth like large boxy tentaculous Cthulhus. Oh, sure, ...

There are no included graphical web browsers, and the build of X has some curious omissions like no Motif (possibly due to its licensing at the time) and no Xpm which would make doing so difficult, though there are Athena widgets and other basics (something like Chimera could potentially work in such an environment). Updating the timezone data was simply a matter of copying files from this Fedora 37 workstation, but building David Mills' venerable reference NTP implementation was one of the big packages that made the Dreamcast consistently flip out. And of course trying to set up the included Lynx forwarding through a local self-hosted Crypto Ancienne HTTPS-over-HTTP proxy will neatly solve the TLS problem, assuming this is one of the versions that can still be coerced into doing so (alternatively, building Chimera and its needed image libraries might also do).

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