The Dreamcast announcement was capped by this amazing roster of technical specifications for the system. With Sega's top game designers working on this machine, we should see some killer apps to go along with the Japanese launch.
Main SpecsCPU SH4 - RISC CPU with 128-bit graphics engine (200MHz, 360 MIPS/1.4 GFLOPS)
Graphics Engine - Power VR Second-Generation (CG performance of over 3 million polygons per second)
Sound Engine - Super intelligent sound processor with 32-bit RISC CPU (64-channel ADPCM)
Main Memory - 16MB (64-megabit SD-RAM x 2)
Modem - V34 (33.6Kbps), V42 and MNP5 full support
OS - Customized Microsoft Windows CE operating system
Media - CD-ROM
CD-ROM Drive - Maximum speed 12x
Color - 16.77 million colors
CG - Bump mapping, fog, alpha-blending, MIP-mapping, trilinear filtering, anti-aliasing, environment mapping, specular effects.
Data Save - VM system (Visual Memory)
Others - Clock, etc.
Size 190mm (W) x 195mm (H) x 78mm (D)
Weight - 2kg
Visual Memory System SpecsCPU - Energy saving 8-bit
Memory - 128K byte
Display (LCD) - 48 (W) x 32 (H) dot monochrome
Size - 47mm (W) x 80mm (H) x 16mm (D)
Power - Button battery x 2, auto-off function
Sound - PWM 1-channel sound source
Weight - 45g