Mac84: Making a 56k Dial-Up Internet Server with DreamPi - Will it work on a Mac? (Sega Dreamcast)

[@gamepad3173]

I'm sure browsing the web on the dreamcast was sick back in the day. but now we browse the web on our Xbox's.

[@mikejandrews]

I loved my Dreamcast. Back in the late 90's, PCs were not as widespread as they are today. It was my first internet connection at home. And having my own Dreamcast email address was really cool.

[@MegaManNeo]

I personally barely used dialup but it was a reason for why I always asked mom to get me a Dreamcast back when it was in stores. My dad happened to use dialup and FAX modems even before the regular Internet was a thing here in Germany in the early 90's, I was still very young but yet I can somewhat remember seeing him going online with his 386 that ran Windows 3.11 for Workgroups at the time. Sadly I have no idea how to do these cables myself, especially since European cables require more power than US ones and thus two batteries, but it's awesome to see the Dreamcast and old computers still being capable of getting online in one way or another.

[@WelcometoVideoCity]

need that dial-up tone as a ringtone

[@LeandroPinheiroTI]

The joy of seeing a growing bar, good times

[@sebastianricci4279]

Love your ambient background music

[@Mac84]

Thanks!! I'll have to put the music titles in the description, they're sourced from the KZbin Audio Library.

[@goo3r]

This is awesome! I don’t know why I didn’t think to use the DreamPi with other things, but now my interest is piqued.

[@Mac84]

Thanks!! I was really curious, so I spent two weekends trying to figure it out... I'm sure glad I happened to find a modem that worked! I'll have to try and get my Macintosh Plus online... and maybe even the Apple IIgs :)

[@is0p0d]

Great video bud! Trying to get an old IBM 5150 hooked up to read BBS's on simulated dial-up over here, this video was pretty interesting

[@pjperretta7030]

I've had a lot of success using the Dreampi on old PC's and Macs. One issue I've ran into is trying to use it for BBS. It will connect but I get a few lines of garbage text and then a message like 'No Carrier' (ZTerm on Mac) or just disconnects (Hyper Terminal on Windows).

[@tofubi6922]

Now you need a Imac g3 flower power model to go with that shirt.

[@MSmith-Photography]

I remember writing support documentation for AT&T WorldNet Service back in the day for the Dreamcast. Wild days, I tell ya! 🤣

[@Mac84]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@MistaMaddog247]

Hey thanks for that! I got AT&T World Net as an ISP to use with both my Dreamcast and Linux box around 2000. I needed to use a "true" login and password that was different from the one the Windows DUP client used but those docs help me find them.

[@Dedicated2WendyWilliams]

i had this same ibook in 2000, ahhh whar a time! this video brought those memories back... thank u for doing this video! it was oddly satisfying...

[@WedgeStratos]

This is actually quite fascinating. Personally speaking, I could not get this USB modem to communicate with my Windows 98 rig at all. It's pretty inexplicable, I suppose because it never asked for things like DNS redirect or a "username" or even the correct number options for dialing in. I may have to see this running on my brother's LC 475.

[@cameron6262]

Works with a Sega Saturn and PS2 dial up modem too :)

[@nicholashein1238]

I remember using EarthLink dialup on my Rev A Bondi Blue iMac G3

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

It was pretty awesome back in the day.

[@spinksy173]

I'm just waiting on the usb modem part through post then ill be back online with this set up- you have answered a couple questions I had which I couldn't find a straight answer to so thanks for that 👍

[@WindowsG]

oh my god thats incredible

[@jim7205]

I used to play phantasy star on the dreamcast all the time

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

I need to get a dreamPi to connect my 2004 iBook G4 and iBook G3 “Snow”’s internal modem

[@0ffGridTechClub]

This is so cool.

[@DiyintheGhetto]

Hello, I can not find the how to setup the pi for the modem. Where might it be at?

[@MG3887Griff]

Im going to use this to play pso ep 1 and 2 on the GameCube

[@stan1845]

does anyone know if you could dail in to BBS sites using this setup? i

[@madbike71]

Excellent Video!

[@puwazatza]

Great video! at 14:20, what/who gave you that login id/password and the dial number? Is that from the user manual from DreamPi modem?

[@Mac84]

Thanks! The DreamPi website says you can basically use any phone number, username, or password. So I just provided some random details and it worked fine.

[@Incognito...]

Sega Dreamcast looks pretty... like... fluffy one bad thing is it failed :( can you try on playstation 1?

[@Mac84]

The system has a great following and an excellent catalog of games. It's failure is a complicated story and doesn't diminish the quality of the games on the system. The Playstation 1 did not have a commercial dial-up modem solution (to my knowledge). This solution can work for other consoles and computers however, as demoed in the video.

[@cooiolhh8955]

That's why sega saturn is the goat, and not the ps1!

[@cooiolhh8955]

Sega4life!

[@thesmashtvnetwork]

is thear any way do this on a desktop

[@para_dies8071]

You've got M A I L

[@cooiolhh8955]

Dreamcast the goat!!

[@RobR386]

I used dialup right into the early 2000s, last using it around 2004, it was good until someone picked up anther phone in the house and cut off the internet 🤣

[@mikethewolfboyo]

Has anyone tried this in Windows 98

[@cooiolhh8955]

Dreamcast4life

[@hyp3rvirus]

it is 2023 we are still in the past. max home speed as 10Gbps is extremely slow :( thosedays people were broken too.

[@pnnytx]

DreamPi is not a dial-up server, but *an internet throttler*