Kinda a two for one here.. Ok.. So does DreamPi work on any Debian Linux device (say a mini PC or bananaPi)? Can I use DreamPi to say connect my old PowerBook to tha interwebz? Thanks
All a DreamPI is is the DC PC server running on a super tiny PC, so yes, it is possible. This is theoretically the same idea here when you share a laptop with an Xbox 360 and use it over wifi to connect to the net. Only thing here is the PC has been considerably shrunken down and the whole process was automated by kazade specifically for that device. I guess if the device can run that same OS and apps or plugins then I don't see why it wouldn't work unless there are come key hardware differences.
DreamPi is a preconfigured Raspberry Pi OS image, ready to negotiate a RAS connection on startup. So you can't run it on anything else besides a Raspberry Pi or maybe similar computer with identical hardware. But you can setup a PC-DC server, which is pretty easy to do provided you have a modem that works with your/a Linux distro. But there won't be any dial tone generation by default. I'm not sure if anyone distributed any Linux dial tone gen scripts. So if a game does not support blind dial you can't connect People have tossed around the idea of trying a BananaPi but I'm pretty sure it's untested, I'm not sure how similar or different the two are I'm pretty sure the Dreamcast dials the modem the standard way a PC or other devices do. So I don't see why it wouldn't work. I've wanted to try this with an old palmtop but I could never find the modem attachment
