Ratamahatta: WRT your plan of asking for docs, I found this on the FreeDO site:
"I have it on excellent authority that Trip will not release any information on the Opera unless he is paid handsomely for it. Trip sees himself as having "lost" money on the whole 3DO Multiplayer thing, and is of
the personality type that would rather take it to his grave than give it away."
For those who don't know, "Trip" is Trip Hawkins, founder of EA and the guy who ran the 3DO project, among other things.