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x86 Emulator on PSP Runs Windows & Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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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  1. Seriously, Taco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Heh by EvilMonkeySlayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Heh by Frymaster · · Score: 4, Informative
      it's called pspe (psp emulator):

      info here and download here.

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  3. games by albertoiii · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  4. Bah.. by cybrchrst · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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    1. Re:Bah.. by Anakron · · Score: 4, Informative

      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?

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  5. Awesome... by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  6. The creators site is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:The creators site is here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

  7. Re:Well, there you go by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  8. The people you linked to are the worst scammers by Busshy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  10. Re:PSP Os by corsec67 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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