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IRC On The PSP
An anonymous reader writes "Volksport has created a new script that allows PSP owners to access IRC from the PSP. The script requires the use of the Wipeout Pure Web browser hack in order to get the PSP online. Once that is done, all you have to do is access this Web page (as the script is server side), and you will be able to chat on the official PSPIRC project IRC channel.
Users are currently limited to the PSPIRC chatroom. The script also features virtual PSP keyboard support."
but this is just an IRC proxy page. It is neat and cool, but it is no different than any other page I might visit via the browser redirect trick. It would be much more exciting if someone had actually written an IRC client that ran on the PSP
What do you know I wrote a novel
When you think about how much has been done in the first month, It's exciting to think about what people will develop for it given some time. Kudos to the developers of this.
Except that this isn't developing *on* the PSP. It's an IRC proxy via the web. The hacked web browser for the PSP lets people do pretty much anything a web browser can do.. but it's not really PSP development.
Give the DS a webbrowser and you can run every one of these "psp hacks". Except that you'd have a much better input system.
USB devices are not peers. There is a USB host and a USB client. It takes far less hardware (thus cost) to be a USB client. This was part of it's advantage over firewire in getting adopted (lower cost and hardware complexity). As far as I know the PSP can only act as a USB client. Thus it cannot use arbitrary USB peripherals.
What do you know I wrote a novel
Yes and no. Yes, the PSP does have a USB port, but it is not usable by peripheral devices yet. So far, the PSP is only able to run as a device, no host support has been uncovered yet. The only way to enable power to the USB port is to do a "USB Connection," which essentially turns your PSP into a media card reader. The only thing you can do is transfer files to it from your computer. Hopefully a firmware update will enable OTG [On the Go] in the future so that we can use it as a host in the future.
Someone else already did, in Japan - Sharp, with their Zaurus C3000.
An excellent handheld, BTW.
Little howto to use your own dns for the psp http://daemonprojects.com/dnspsp/
9 buttons.
I'm used to texting, so it's incredibly fast for me. I prefer it over normal "virtual" keyboards.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Like I said in the PSP webroswer hack article. I said the PSP need IRC acess and what do you know. Someone acutally did it!
This is not a major breakthrough for the PSP. It still uses port 80 for access - this is not IRC, it's just a proxy page for it. If this is IRC then sending email to someone with a (real) IRC client and then pasting it on IRC is also.
While definently a good thing for the PSP, not a major hack. You could probably even do bittorrent this way. You send and receive the packets to a server which sends/receives them for you.
Since that was a fairly bad explanation, here is an image (I'm too lazy to finish it). That would be holding left and pressing square. Some combination of chars in each box could be like abcd, efgh, ijkl, mnop, qrst, uvwx, yz12, 3456, and 7890. You could have puncuation and other things with L1 and R1, but you know nobody uses puncuation on IRC anyway.
No existe.
Here - a PSP Keyboard
I'm a 2000 man.
http://www.gameseek.co.uk/productdetail/PSPfhyaqce 6he5x223r/
There will be a keyborad for the PSP