An intrepid hacker has got Windows 95 running on a Sony Playstation Portable. The PSP uses a MIPS R4000 CPU and Windows is actually running emulated on Bochs, so it's probably not that useable, and it's no substitute for the ongoing effort to get Linux running natively on the Sony gaming handheld.
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Yes it does but does anyone care? No.
Is there any excitement about the DS? Not really - Infact quite the opposite people seem to ridicule it alot.....all those screens, the ugliness etc. The games look mostly awful however i've heard they have excellent gameplay.......but since when has that mattered to most gamers.......it really won't sell.....
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/jspackman/n64/n64.html
"The N64's RISC CPU is a 64 bit R4300i running at over 93 MHz."
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The PSP to me is just a handheld Playstation, and I was never a fan of the Playstation and I don't like the idea of ONLY playing 3D titles so I stick with the DS.
Underpowered it may be compared to the PSP, it is cheaper, it still packs quite a punch (see mario ds if you don't believe me), and it has the BEST control set up for FPS's where as Sony only has a Left (oh my god is that funny) analog like a N64 or Dreamcast or something wich we all know, unless you are left handed, is FPS hell.
On top of all this the DS, can currently run linux, it has a touch screen so you can have a virtual keyboard easy, plus it can respond to voice. beat that for innovation!
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I own both... and they are both good machines. They have different targets and different games. Sometimes I want Twisted Metal on the go or in the living room playing online while watching TV. Sometimes I want something like Meteos or Nanostray on the DS or just want to be able to play something more modern like Mario DS and easily switch to a GBA game. The PSP is hardly only 3D and the DS is hardly all 2D. Also development on both machines is fun... though easier on the PSP with the 1.0 or 1.5 firmware.
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Why would anyone want to load Windows on a PSP (or anything else, for that matter)? Because it is there?
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You could use it to load "home brew" programs. I'm thinking about getting a PSP because people have found ways to get SNES, NES, Genesis, etc. emulators running on the PSP. The ability to play Mario or Final Fantasy (back when they were good on the SNES before going downhill on the Playstation) on the road is very appealing to me.
Having Windows (a modified Linux would probably be more useful) could make for an easier environment in which to load your home brew programs.
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Having Windows (a modified Linux would probably be more useful) could make for an easier environment in which to load your home brew programs.
Well, no... Windows is running here under Bochs, emulating an x86 instruction set on a MIPS CPU. Trying to run anything else on top of that would be a waste of time - you're losing too much processing power to the OS and emulation layer.
Running Linux or a BSD as a native OS might be more practical though. No emulation layer, and the OS can more easily be trimmed down to run on a limited platform.
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doods , kind of unrelated but actually related action...
I must be getting old but when I went to Art School, all the 3D animation classes I had where on SGI wait no Silicon Graphics Indy machines in the SillyGraphics lab. (as opposed to the mac labs, or the Video synthetiser lab.
Many a nights where spent cranking out models and what not for class assignments, and getting skills we thought would help in the 'REAL' world.
Here are the specs and history of that machine: http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/indybyte.html
Maybe its just me but isn't the PSP even more powerful?
man oh man.
crazyness, that machine was insanely expensive compared to other workstations at the time although right around there Microsoft bought Softimage which was the platform we where learning on, and ported it to NT 3.5.1 We actually didn't get any NT machines at school until maybe a year after I left. (This mainly because SGI was one of the Art & Tech depts primary hardware sponsors.)
I think they went with Intergraph NT machines which in the end cost just as much money as the Indy's ($10 000 or so) which is really funny cause a PSP costs $200 or something and is more powerful.
wow..
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WHY NOT RUN IRIX.
IRIX was made for this chip.
Then you could run Softimage on the PSP instead of stupid games, and then you will get all these 9 year olds making all these phat games & animated films, and then the world will be a better place cause they will be expressing their misplaced anger and violence into a creative endevor at the same time no one would play games anymore cause everyone would be making animated films and Sony would be happy cause everyone would be buying a 100 PSPs and using them in renderfarms.
Man could you imagine 100 node PSP beowulf clusters would be the norm.
wait a sec though can you connect to infiniband over 802.11x?
if that works then we are set.
shmood right?
