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Bleem's shipping-the exe that is
Twitch writes "Looks like the guys over at Bleem finally managed to get their Playstation emulator for the PC out, in spite of repeated attempts by Sony to prevent it. Check it out at their website. " From what I understand, they are going to begin shipping within the next week. Excellent. I've been informed that it started shipping a few weeks ago-but some people aren't so happy with it. Click below to read more. What's come out now is the actual exe.
Hemos,
Bleem started to ship over 2-3 weeks ago. The actual exe was just released on the 15th. You buy the CD from them, which just has DirectX 6.1 on it and some sort of key. You then download the exe from them, and it checks for your CD key. Some sort of way of preventing piracy I guess. It annoys the hell out of me because you need to put the CD Key CDROM in your cdrom drive every time you want to play Bleem!. Not to mention that it does not work with my Sony DVD IDE drive. I had to borrow a friend's CDROM just to play the damn thing. It's got a lot of bugs.. I'd wait to order it if I were you. It's also got some reported problems with Voodoo cards.
Bleem started to ship over 2-3 weeks ago. The actual exe was just released on the 15th. You buy the CD from them, which just has DirectX 6.1 on it and some sort of key. You then download the exe from them, and it checks for your CD key. Some sort of way of preventing piracy I guess. It annoys the hell out of me because you need to put the CD Key CDROM in your cdrom drive every time you want to play Bleem!. Not to mention that it does not work with my Sony DVD IDE drive. I had to borrow a friend's CDROM just to play the damn thing. It's got a lot of bugs.. I'd wait to order it if I were you. It's also got some reported problems with Voodoo cards.
Crypt242
Ken Kutaragi, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and former manager of Sony's Playstation research and development, is known to be interested in Linux and the possibility of encouraging other parts of Sony to adopt their new CPU e.g. for embedded systems products. However, a recent interview with Kutaragi by NikkeiBP showed his initial goal is limited to using Linux only as a development environment to create software for the Playstation. Look up Sony!
Real-Time Linux + PSX CPU would be a great environment for embedded systems. Sony should realise the opportunities and start marketing in the next year or two before the price/performance advantage is lost. Sony could get Linux ported to the PSX with absolutely minimal investment assuming they gave adequate technical documentation to the open source community. Perhaps somebody in Sony (Japan) will read this and take up the suggestion.
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Sony looses money on every PlayStation sold, and only makes it up through game sales. Instead of fighting the guys who write emulators, couldn't Sony develop it's own emulator, sell a $30 CD-ROM drive capable of reading their black CDs (that's how much double speed drives went for, last I checked), preferably with some sort of copy protection, and then have all the benefits of people buying PlayStation games, without the financial looses of people buying PlayStations?
- pmitros (possibly with dated information)
| If you already have a PC, $25 for bleem is alot
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.so again? :)
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| cheaper than a $200 console... Looks much nicer
| on a voodoo card and SVGA monitor than on a
| nasty TV set.
1) It's a $130 console - NEW. Cheaper if you look hard enough.
2) It takes more than a $130 investment in PC hardware to get the thing to run good on your average PC. Sure, if you've already sunk the money it's probably not too expensive, but otherwise
3) A PSX is less hassle. Plain and simple. Pop in "Colony Wars: Vengeance", plug in the Dual Analog Flightstick, and I'm there. Now where was that DLL or
4) It's too early. Sure, if PSXen were hard to come by, I could see the point - like MAME for old arcade games that are damned near impossible to find these days. Or UAE - since Amigas aren't exactly easy to come by. But a PSX?
5) I have a nice TV set, hooked to a nice stereo system. The PSX looks pretty damned good hooked up to the TV with s-video. And the sound - oh my! Contrast with the PC which, while it has a good trinitron monitor, it's only 17". And I only have a 75WPC stereo system hooked to the computer. (A real stereo, not "multimedia speakers", but still - no competition for the living room).
6) (And the most important reason this thing is lame) - No Linux port.
... give it a while and it'll show up in mame.
-- Rick