Dreamcast

Review

Dreamcast, Sega's latest console, has been released in the US on September 9th, 1999 (9-9-99). The Dreamcast is certainly the best console seen so far, and is absolutely AMAZING!
Here are the technical specifications of the system:

CPU: Hitachi SH-4

• 200MHz clock rate
• 360 MIPS (millions of instructions per second)
• 1.4 billion floating-point operations per second
• 3D calculations
• 800+ MBytes/second bus bandwidth

Graphic Core - NEC PowerVR Second Generation

• 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
• 8 MB video RAM
• 2 MB sound RAM

Sound: Yamaha Audio Core

• RISC CPU
• DSP for real-time effects
• 64 sound channels
• Full 3D sound support
• Hardware-based audio compression

Storage Media: CDROM

• 1 Gbyte data storage
• 12x speed Constant Angular Velocity drive

Control Pad:

• Digital and analog directional controls
• Dual analog triggers
• Visual Memory System data save unit

VMS:

• Energy-saving 8-bit CPU
• 128K byte memory
• 48x32 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)
• Weight: 45g

Miscellaneous:

• A 33.6Kbytes per second transfer rate modem
• Upgradable

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