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Emulation Explosion On the PS3 Via Linux

Posted by timothy on from the like-your-very-own-time-machine dept.

Marty writes "The PlayStation 3 has recently seen an explosion of releases of emulators and games for the Yellow Dog Linux distro for PS3; once you have installed Yellow Dog Linux you then have the ability to try out MAME, SNES, Amiga, Dos, Commodore and Atari emulators (that's the tip of the iceberg) and such games as Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Hexen 2 and Alephone. Time to start installing Linux on your PS3?"

13 of 425 comments (clear)

  1. Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yo, Dawg! I herd you like playin' consoles so I put a console in yo console so you can play while you play!

    I now feel somewhat happier.

    1. Re:Oblig. by Joebert · · Score: 2, Funny

      Install a Linux emulating emulator and ask: Yo Dawg, Y U playin ya self ?

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    2. Re:Oblig. by Sj0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You misspelled the typo. It's "I herd you liek[...]"

      I don't know how to feel about that...

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      It's been a long time.
    3. Re:Oblig. by RMingin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Grammar Nazis for internet memes. *Now* I have seen everything.

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  2. PS3 without linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not a gamer and for the longest time I have been trying to decide if I want to buy a PS3. If only it had more ram.

  3. The madness by hee+gozer · · Score: 3, Funny

    All those fancy cell cores with their gigahertzes and gigaflops, the hdd with its gigabytes and then bluray, just to play a game of Hunt the Wumpus! Hunt in shiny HD ascii!

  4. Re:Linux on PS3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, I would so love a Beowulf-Cluster of Linux Grandma powered toasters. Grandma would get her exercise. I would be able to start my toaster from my cellphone. Everyone would get toast. There could be toast preference presets that auto adjust with biometrics, I could sell my toast data to Google Trends and eat it too. EVERYONE WINS WITH GRANDMA POWERED LINUX TOASTERS!

  5. Re:Linux on PS3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    IBM will have a patent on this in 3 weeks

  6. Re:Linux on PS3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are amazing technologies being developed as we argue here, but I doubt having emacs on a PS3 is creating the next great breakthrough.

    I find your lack of vision disturbing :P

  7. Re:No by MadKeithV · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that early adapter a 9v, 12v or 220v? Would running a higher voltage make my PS-3 faster?

  8. Re:Sweet! by Sam36 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stupid fan boys. You should be trying to get windows vista running on it so you can see real innovation.

  9. Re:Wow, Guess That Makes The 360 A Massive Failure by supernova_hq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that 28.9M include replacements for the dead ones? ;)

  10. Re:No by Sj0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, when I bought my Wii, it was becuase it represented a new paradigm in gaming, and the games that were already available for it were incredibly fun and interesting.

    When I bought my 360, I knew it would be the PS2 of this generation, filled with the interesting titles other consoles wouldn't bother publishing. I just finished Braid this weekend.

    When I bought my PSP, I thought it was really cool I could hang out in front of a hotel and press a few buttons and have any one of a huge selection of playstation games at my fingertips for less than a meal at McDonald's.

    When I bought my DS, I was impressed by the massive library of dependably solid titles, as well as backwards compatibility with the GBA.

    So you're saying your PS3's power cable plugs right into it? That's great...

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    It's been a long time.