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."

Comments

Bah..

[cybrchrst]

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..

Re:Bah..

[Anakron]

The article says it won't run at all on any firmware version above 1.5. He's not sure it'll run on 1.5, though. Have you tested this?

Re:Bah..

[boingyzain]

It works fine on 1.5. I used the EBOOT converter on his 1.0 eboot and successfully got it to run on 1.5.

Re:RTFA ... DOS not Windows

[Czo]

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.

The creators site is here

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:The creators site is here

[Anonymous Coward]

1) They frequently post the same story multiple times. Ok, slashdot do this, but pspupdate managed to post this item 3 times.

2) They have an annoying tendency of not just asking for money but also begging for it

3) They are now running a pyramid scheme that claims to give people free PSPs

4) They frequently fail to clearly identify the author and instead of heavily linking the authors site they will put the downloads in their download section making it look a bit like their own work

5) The forums, if you dare look at them, attract the wrong crowd, and they are not well moderated or looked after

6) They censor people who dare to say bad things about them

7) They have a very strange piracy policy, they will quite happily report on pirate releases and not mod the forums while they claim that they are against it.

I think that more or less covers it.

Re:Sure it can emulate but how fast?

[wo1verin3]

http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/

Windows 95 actually runs quite well but don't expect it to be a speed demon. It takes about 10 minutes to boot but afterwards it's pretty usable. I was able to do things like: open "My computer" and browse the virtual hard drive, complete a whole game of Minesweeper and run various other applications. Now you too can get your Minesweeper fix on the go :)

Re:Heh

[Frymaster]

it's called pspe (psp emulator):

info here and download here.

Re:Bochs is terrible

[invisigoth]

No, but you can have QEMM. You know, so you can break the 640k memory barrier.

Re:RTFA ... DOS not Windows

[larry bagina]

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.

The people you linked to are the worst scammers

[Busshy]

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.

Re:How useful...

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Re:PSP Os

[corsec67]

Actually, the psp is a little bit different.

Of the 32 megs of RAM in the system, when a game is playing, 8 are dedicated to the OS. Games can run many things that are in the OS, such as save/load, keyboard, network.

What about the Nintendo DS and the ScummVM Port

[Busshy]

The ScummVM Port for the Nintendo DS is probably bigger news than this and works perfect, heres the ScummVM Port link.