ps one

dmitriy · Post by **dmitriy** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:08 am

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

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:02 pm

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

Post by **mrbrown** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:09 am

Actually a group of russian hackers got Linux running on the PS1 long ago.

Moving this to off-topic.

gorim · Post by **gorim** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:50 pm

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.

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:12 pm

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.