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x86 Emulator on PSP Runs Windows & Linux
Dan writes "The bochs x86 emulator has been ported to the psp, and allows for x86 disk images to be run.linux and dos images have been confirmed to work."
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So, to ask the obvious question... How long will we have to wait before the PSP runs OS X Tiger?
Would it be so difficult to actually edit the story blurbs? You know... capitalize the beginning of a sentence? Add a couple spaces?
Now all they need to do is make a psp emulator for windows and the cycle shall be complete.
Emulate x86 on a psp running windows and then emulate a psp on it and so on!
Although it may cause one of those universe destroying events.
Perhaps Cthulu will rise by running them recursively.
Can we get Qemu, at least?
I can think of a few interesting things I'd like to do with that wifi card.
Normality is now: overrated.
Impressive, but nowhere does it say how fast this thing is. What excactly do you end up with? A 486 speed pc at best?
I'd tap it. The PSP is looking more tasty every day and now you can run linux on it w00t.
Yes! now I can play minesweeper and solitare on my PSP running windows 95.
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plus the bonus underwater level, i've heard its all blue with some white text.
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It can run linux. Now you can stop asking.
This won't work for anyone that has upgraded their PSP to anything above 1.0 of the Firmware. A little detail that got left out of the article..
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Windows 95 == DOS + GUI
You can see Win95 run on the screenshot, unless it photoshopping.
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For a while I thought that run.linux was the name of a new distro. You submitters, with your odd grammar ways...
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
This is awesome! I can't wait to play DOS with the D-Pad and fire buttons!
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Then the photo with the Win95 boot screen is very misleading! Though why you would even want to run windows 95 on anything is beyond me.
http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/
Well done, you've managed to post a link to a site that has nothing to do with the creator and is widely despised in the PSP community, nevermind being full of pop-ups and ads.
Hillbilly #1: Dangit, Buck, I wanna use the sex box.
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What an excelent idea! We don't need any sources anymore!
"Then the photo with the Win95 boot screen is very misleading! Though why you would even want to run windows 95 on anything is beyond me."
PSP + Windows 95 == portable abandonware machine. I'd love to play the Space Quest games on it.
Back to reality, though, my laptop does that just fine and I don't travel much.
"Derp de derp."
Does anyone know what OS the PSP runs? Is it a Sony proprietary OS, or some known embedded OS?
It seems the PSP is doing more and more non-video game stuff, and i love it.
Now the question is when does that USB keyboard for it(makes it look like a blackberry) come out? That seems like an essential accessory to get with all these fun homebrew apps.
With wireless connectivity, that + keyboard would make a nice email checker when I'm at a coffee shop. Great timing since my Handspring Visor(which looks like a pong machine compared to my PSP) just went kaput.
"The story title is incorrect. The emulator runs DOS and not Windows. Its not as easy to get Windows running on PSP I guess."
Step 1) Click link.
Step 2) Remove head from ass.
"Derp de derp."
From http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/:
:)
In windows, mouse handling is extremely difficult. I suspect it has something to do with the "boost" feature windows has. Once you get the mouse moving it will keep moving in that direction even when you're trying to move to a different direction. The solution is to counter the movement by moving to the opposite direction. It's sort of like trying to push the mouse the other way in order to stop it.
Wow, this sounds like a fun game in and of itself!
if anyone is thinking of running OS X x86 it is not going to work, needs X86, it would only work if someone ported pearpc.
Grammer once again slips at /.
Too bad PINE is not an emulator.
Grammer? What's grammer? And how was my GRAMMAR incorrect exactly?
Look at Sarien, a sierra AGI interpreter. It plays the old classics (KQ 1-3, SQ, Leisure Suit Larry 1-3, etc). It doesn't appear to be ported to ported to the PSP (yet), but it is available for the dreamcast.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
PSPUpdates.com are a company who are ripping off the homebrew scene with loads of ads/popups and free psp pyramid schemes that are exploiting those who dont know what they are. Please stop linking to them :(
Emunnoobs has a dossier on these crooks and PSP Emulation News would be a much more legit site to look and post PSP Scene news.
Come on slashdot newsposters.
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this has been discussed before on the psplinux forums.
sure, it might seem if it runs, but the actual goal is to have linux run on the actual native psp APIs.
this is just a mere gimmick.
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perhaps he secretly wanted to slashdot an evil site? ;)
I think its fantastic that these guys have the committment to ensure that we're able to view our pron on absolutely every platform possible.
Now, if you can emulate Windows or Linux, couldn't you theoreticly emulate (almost) and other game console? Once someone makes a reliable Nintendo DS emulator for Linux or Windows, there would be no need for the DS. Unless of course you wanted the extremely sexy dual screens, then you WOULD have to buy a DS. Shame, I was hoping for an All-In-One console.
Screw that, does it run NetBSD? That shit even runs on your toaster now.
Joo pwned him lolz
The most constructive use for a PSP yeT? THis is cool. Does Xorg run yet?
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Because it's NEWS FOR NERDS, retard.
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Maby you're new here...
We here at slashdot are nerds... now i'm a mac fan and love macs to death, but Bochs on PSP is damn cool. I think you need to go discover AvrilLavigne.net or some other pop culture portal, perhaps MTV.com... you're clearly in the wrong place.
Another thing.. bashing Linux here usually gets tagged as flamebait... if you want to garner any respect, you'll likely have to not bash Linux unless you're posting in an article itself pointing out a Linux flaw.
Lastly, spelling and spacing are important... : it's Linux, not Liinux, and it's mongooses, not mongeese. People respect you when you spell, punctuate, and speak with care.
I know you have a high user account, in the 600k range, and probably don't know much about how slashdot really runs, but a bit of advice: Lecturing somebody who's been here years longer then you is generally not a good idea. If you want to garner any respect, you might try to learn that "if somebody is making a joke that you don't understand, you should probably keep your mouth shut".
Because it took somebody with smarts to put a lot of work in, and now we all benefit, even those of us without a PSP. And buddy deserves the recognition, it's a lot of what keeps them going.
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Lastly, spelling and spacing are important
Maby you should take your own advice. Just maby.
(p.s. It's "maybe", dumbass)
I can answer that -- I'm the fucking mongoose, and I run Linux.
...we get working on something that runs natively on the PSP's architechure. I'm not genius, but how hard can it be to port l1nuX to a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture.
... is if you could remaster Damn Small Linux, INSERT, or another small Linux Live CD distro to boot from UMD. Those discs are ISO 9660, right?
So have they gotten osx to work on it yet?
OSX s for fags dude
Don't most emulators (or ports of emulators) take a very long time to do? (for example the PSX emulator ePSXe still isn't complete, even after the PSone is far outdated)
can it emulate an xbox?
Couldn't Linux be compiled to run natively on the PSP?
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The ScummVM Port for the Nintendo DS is probably bigger news than this and works perfect, heres the ScummVM Port link.
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Many thanks for your time.
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
at least in my experience, they report only on hacks, not pirate releases (like "someone hacked the tenchi browser, and extracted it from the game"), but their forums are well moderated (anyone even asking where to find the former example was moderated out, for instance).
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ScummVM is ported to the PSP too. It works really good on the big PSP screen.
;-)
And I'd say that running an x86 emulator is quite a bit more neat than running a homebrew app. It's just not as useful.
So If you can run windows on it, how long before someone can post a screen shot of a Blue screen of death?
and wheres the "Ctrl+Alt+Del" key?
will still fark around with your picture for fun...
it's mongooses, not mongeese.
Everybody knows that the plural of mongoose is polygoose.
like X-com had very modest system requirements and can make use of a PSP's control setup nicely.
I am not a programmer. I would hope some brave soul out there would tackle this challenge.
I played X-com on my PS1 a long time ago. I'd like the idea of such a fun game coming back around for the PSP.
-- What's this '-r *' file doing here? -- Oh well, a simple 'rm' should do the trick.
Everyone in America should consider themselves lucky with their NTSC signal.
Thank God things have changed now, but in the days on FFVII all we got were squashed pictures and 5/6ths of the original speed, bevause of the differences in resolution and framerate.
Heck, they didn't even give a shit about the in-game clock, which meant if you had 50 Hours on your clock, your real play-time was 60 hours.
Why not port NATIVE NT to this thing? I seem to remember that it ran on MIPS 4000 chips? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT/