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ps one

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:08 am
by dmitriy
ok, i really know : it is to old, but : are there any tools to work with it

if there is a linux distro for it --- it'll be the best

thanks

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:02 pm
by J.F.
The PS1 has way too little memory for linux - even embedded linux. Most dev sites related to the PS1 are very old and links may or may not still work. Here's a couple old PS1 dev sites.

http://dev.paradogs.com/docs.html
http://www.syncscroller.net/psx/psx-index.html

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:09 am
by mrbrown
Actually a group of russian hackers got Linux running on the PS1 long ago.

Moving this to off-topic.

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:50 pm
by gorim
J.F. wrote:The PS1 has way too little memory for linux - even embedded linux. Most dev sites related to the PS1 are very old and links may or may not still work. Here's a couple old PS1 dev sites.

http://dev.paradogs.com/docs.html
http://www.syncscroller.net/psx/psx-index.html
The first system I ever ran Linux on had only 2MB of memory and an Intel 386 CPU.

I remember way back running SunOS 4.0 on a Moto 68K 20Mhz with only 2MB of memory.

I find it hard to believe Linux today can't run on such a similar configuration.

Granted, one needs to strip out the fat that has accumulated into the kernel.

Personally, I would never use Linux in such a case, because Linux is to the embedded space what Microsoft is to the desktop pc space - bloat.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:12 pm
by J.F.
Hmm... I guess if you knew what you were doing and stripped absolutely everything out of the kernel, you might get it running in 2M, but it'd be a tough job. I would suggest using an OS designed for small systems, like Contiki.

That actually has a web browser and server and works on 8bit systems. It'd make a great OS for the PS1.