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DreamKey

1999 – 2002 Discontinued
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European and Australian Dreamcast browser providing access to the Dreamarena service; version 3.0 (2002) finally let users choose their own ISP.

Facts

Developer
Sega Europe / ICL
Website
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Engine
NetFront
Platforms
Consoles
Details
Sega Dreamcast (Europe, Australia); NetFront engine according to Wikipedia (NetFront article, unsourced sentence)
Popularity
57/100 — Wikipedia: 400,000 European Dreamcasts registered online (Oct. 2000)

Key versions

  1. 1.0NetFrontDisc bundled with the European Dreamcast to register for Dreamarena and browse, locked to Sega's partner ISPs.[1]
  2. 1.5Minor revision adding support for users in the Republic of Ireland.[2]
  3. 2.0Dreamcast Mouse support, Dreamnote messaging with audio clips, a more compact on-screen keyboard.[3]
  4. 3.0Final version: finally lets users pick their own ISP, ahead of Dreamarena's closure on 28 February 2002.[4]

Version sources: [1] segaretro.org (archive.org), [2] segaretro.org (archive.org), [3] segaretro.org (archive.org), [4] Dreamcast online functionality (Wikipedia en)

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_online_functionality
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFront