Why would that not be practical? Not being belligerent, just curious. If the console-on-a-card were ~the same price as the console itself, I would think very seriously about buying one. See above reference to AOE for the reason why. Plus I would love to have all the Playstation games available to me too.
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This is a repost from another thread, but it seemed applicable to this thread as well. Plus I'd like to get that Playstation Developer's point of view.
I emailed the guy at Ensemble studios yesterday about whether there was any chance of an AOE port to Linux. (Yes, stupid, I know. I just love that game. If AOE and quicken came over to Linux, I could nuke my Win95 partition for good.)
Anyway... I'm getting away from myself. His reply was: "Linux... I doubt it.... Both Playstation and Mac ports of AOE are coming soon (Spring/Summer 99)"
AOE's multiplayer mode is the most fun part of the game. PCMCIA ethernet in the PSX could use that.
Of course, in my dream world, I would get a PSX emulator for my Linux box.
Now here's a question. Could all the capabilities of the PSX be brought over to a computer by putting that hardware on a PCI card? Maybe with a software interface to the computer?
I emailed the guy at Ensemble studios yesterday about whether there was any chance of an AOE port to Linux. (Yes, stupid, I know. I just love that game. If AOE and quicken came over to Linux, I could nuke my Win95 partition for good.)
Anyway... I'm getting away from myself. His reply was: "Linux... I doubt it.... Both Playstation and Mac ports of AOE are coming soon (Spring/Summer 99)"
AOE's multiplayer mode is the most fun part of the game. PCMCIA ethernet in the PSX could use that.
Of course, in my dream world, I would get a PSX emulator for my Linux box.
Now here's a question. Could all the capabilities of the PSX be brought over to a computer by putting that hardware on a PCI card? Maybe with a software interface to the computer?
Also you could try a distribution that has KDE pre-configured. I recently switched over to Linux completely b/c I was sick of Win95 crashes. I currently using Linux-Mandrake, and have recommended it to several people -- three have already picked it up. I'll try gnome when I want to upgrade. Till then, though, I'm happy.
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Why would that not be practical? Not being belligerent, just curious. If the console-on-a-card were ~the same price as the console itself, I would think very seriously about buying one. See above reference to AOE for the reason why. Plus I would love to have all the Playstation games available to me too.
This is a repost from another thread, but it seemed applicable to this thread as well. Plus I'd like to get that Playstation Developer's point of view.
... I'm getting away from myself. His reply was:
I emailed the guy at Ensemble studios yesterday about whether there was any chance of an AOE port to Linux. (Yes, stupid, I know. I just love that game. If AOE and quicken came over to Linux, I could nuke my Win95 partition for good.)
Anyway
"Linux... I doubt it.... Both Playstation and Mac ports of AOE are coming soon (Spring/Summer 99)"
AOE's multiplayer mode is the most fun part of the game. PCMCIA ethernet in the PSX could use that.
Of course, in my dream world, I would get a PSX emulator for my Linux box.
Now here's a question. Could all the capabilities of the PSX be brought over to a computer by putting that hardware on a PCI card? Maybe with a software interface to the computer?
I emailed the guy at Ensemble studios yesterday about whether there was any chance of an AOE port to Linux. (Yes, stupid, I know. I just love that game. If AOE and quicken came over to Linux, I could nuke my Win95 partition for good.)
... I'm getting away from myself. His reply was:
Anyway
"Linux... I doubt it.... Both Playstation and Mac ports of AOE are coming soon (Spring/Summer 99)"
AOE's multiplayer mode is the most fun part of the game. PCMCIA ethernet in the PSX could use that.
Of course, in my dream world, I would get a PSX emulator for my Linux box.
Now here's a question. Could all the capabilities of the PSX be brought over to a computer by putting that hardware on a PCI card? Maybe with a software interface to the computer?
OK, I'll stop now.
Also you could try a distribution that has KDE pre-configured. I recently switched over to Linux completely b/c I was sick of Win95 crashes. I currently using Linux-Mandrake, and have recommended it to several people -- three have already picked it up. I'll try gnome when I want to upgrade. Till then, though, I'm happy.
I thought I got in ahead of the crowd.
Arrgh!