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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?"

6 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 Sj0 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

      --
      It's been a long time.
  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. 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?

  5. 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? ;)