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Although people could change ISP settings thanks to American online games like ''[[Quake III Arena]]'', European Dreamcast web browsers DreamKey 1.0 and 1.5 didn't allow users to input their own ISP settings. After the end of Dreamarena, Sega offered to send DreamKey 3.0/3.1 free from Sega-Europe's website, allowing users to replace Dreamarena ISP with their own ISP to continue to browse the web and to play online games, but have since discontinued this service. | Although people could change ISP settings thanks to American online games like ''[[Quake III Arena]]'', European Dreamcast web browsers DreamKey 1.0 and 1.5 didn't allow users to input their own ISP settings. After the end of Dreamarena, Sega offered to send DreamKey 3.0/3.1 free from Sega-Europe's website, allowing users to replace Dreamarena ISP with their own ISP to continue to browse the web and to play online games, but have since discontinued this service. | ||
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| + | ==1999 Promotional flyer== | ||
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| + | File:Dreamarena flyer 01.jpg|Page 1 | ||
| + | File:Dreamarena flyer 02.jpg|Page 2 | ||
| + | File:Dreamarena flyer 03.jpg|Page 3 | ||
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| + | File:Dreamarena flyer 06.jpg|Page 6 | ||
| + | File:Dreamarena flyer 07.jpg|Page 7 | ||
| + | File:Dreamarena flyer 08.jpg|Page 8 | ||
| + | </gallery> | ||
[[Category:Sega Online Services]] | [[Category:Sega Online Services]] | ||
Revision as of 18:33, 6 April 2010
Dreamarena was a free online gaming service provided with all Sega Dreamcast consoles in Europe. As the console had a bundled 33.6 kbit/s modem built in (56 kbit/s in the USA), it was a dial-up service. This was created and operated for Sega Europe by a partnership between International Computers Limited, BT and various ISPs (ICL developed the web sites and software, with BT providing the dial-up capabilities and network infrastructure, and the ISPs (one for each country) providing the Internet dial-up connection and telephone service). The service was free, and the game servers hosted within it could not otherwise be accessed from the Internet. Dreamarena ran until the beginning of March 2003.
Although people could change ISP settings thanks to American online games like Quake III Arena, European Dreamcast web browsers DreamKey 1.0 and 1.5 didn't allow users to input their own ISP settings. After the end of Dreamarena, Sega offered to send DreamKey 3.0/3.1 free from Sega-Europe's website, allowing users to replace Dreamarena ISP with their own ISP to continue to browse the web and to play online games, but have since discontinued this service.
1999 Promotional flyer
- Dreamarena flyer 01.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 02.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 03.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 04.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 05.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 06.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 07.jpg
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- Dreamarena flyer 08.jpg
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