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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Tiger Support Soon?

[byteCoder]

So, to ask the obvious question... How long will we have to wait before the PSP runs OS X Tiger?

Re:Tiger Support Soon?

[blackomegax]

not long, apparantly ;)

Re:Tiger Support Soon?

[adam31]

No problem, I'll even set it up for you!

Just send me your PSP and a 6GB memory stick...

Seriously, Taco

[Anonymous Coward]

Would it be so difficult to actually edit the story blurbs? You know... capitalize the beginning of a sentence? Add a couple spaces?

Heh

[EvilMonkeySlayer]

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.

Re:Heh

[Frymaster]

it's called pspe (psp emulator):

info here and download here.

Sure it can emulate but how fast?

[kevn]

Impressive, but nowhere does it say how fast this thing is. What excactly do you end up with? A 486 speed pc at best?

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:Sure it can emulate but how fast?

[bhtooefr]

Reading that, why don't they somehow modify the Bochs "video card" to have the PSP-native resolution? Shouldn't be *that* hard...

Re:Sure it can emulate but how fast?

[Hott of the World]

One thing at a time.. they've just announced getting it running at all.

games

[albertoiii]

Yes! now I can play minesweeper and solitare on my PSP running windows 95.

plus the bonus underwater level, i've heard its all blue with some white text.

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Well, there you go

[RazorRaiser]

It can run linux. Now you can stop asking.

Re:Well, there you go

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

You are so first half of 2005. The hip thing to ask is whether it runs OSX/x86 these days...

Re:Well, there you go

[iapetus]

Nice. Now, how about a Beowulf cluster of PSPs. ;)

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.

run.linux?

[game kid]

"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."

For a while I thought that run.linux was the name of a new distro. You submitters, with your odd grammar ways...

Awesome...

[Jace of Fuse!]

This is awesome! I can't wait to play DOS with the D-Pad and fire buttons!

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.

Glad I bought the 1.50

[British]

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.

Re:RTFA ... DOS not Windows

[NanoGator]

"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.

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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Other Systems

[BrianKStein]

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.

Re:Other Systems

[Dwedit]

Actually, it is much more CPU intensive to emulate the Atari 2600 than the SNES. And most modern NES emulators run much slower than ZSnes. Even the speedy NES emulators, like Nesticle and Loopynes will far too slow to even consider. This is Bochs we're talking about here, and on a High-Speed pentium 4, you can't get a decent framerate even in the fastest emulators.

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.

Why? Well, quite simple, really.

[cbreaker]

Because it's NEWS FOR NERDS, retard.

Re:PSP Os

[jericho4.0]

Those days are largely over. More complicated games require more abstraction from the hardware, and the hardware now has to manage TCP, wireless, memory sticks, etc. The resulting code starts looking a lot like an OS.

Re:Who TF Cares?!?!?!?!

[Mongoose]

I can answer that -- I'm the fucking mongoose, and I run Linux.

os x?

[NickMc2000]

So have they gotten osx to work on it yet?

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.

Re:How useful...

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