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boogschd · 10/10/2008 08:20 AM

trademark91 Wrote:
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:The PSP was never meant to be a PC...

true... but isn't the whole point of modding to make something something else? isn't it to make things different, better? Plus if you look at the system capabilities of a PSP, especially the 2000 series, an early version of windows (3.1, 95) could be easily run...

i don't see a reason for doing that ...

trademark91 · 10/10/2008 08:28 AM

boogschd Wrote:
trademark91 Wrote:
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:The PSP was never meant to be a PC...

true... but isn't the whole point of modding to make something something else? isn't it to make things different, better? Plus if you look at the system capabilities of a PSP, especially the 2000 series, an early version of windows (3.1, 95) could be easily run...

i don't see a reason for doing that ...

i guess your right... but still, it think it would be cool. Im gonna look more trying to do this... (do you think it would be possible to just replace all operating files with dos, or make a separate operating system that you could activate optionally instead of a psp firmware?) good thing i have a pandora battery lol.

boogschd · 10/10/2008 09:22 AM

trademark91 Wrote:
boogschd Wrote:
trademark91 Wrote:
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:The PSP was never meant to be a PC...

true... but isn't the whole point of modding to make something something else? isn't it to make things different, better? Plus if you look at the system capabilities of a PSP, especially the 2000 series, an early version of windows (3.1, 95) could be easily run...

i don't see a reason for doing that ...

i guess your right... but still, it think it would be cool. Im gonna look more trying to do this... (do you think it would be possible to just replace all operating files with dos, or make a separate operating system that you could activate optionally instead of a psp firmware?) good thing i have a pandora battery lol.

only if it wer that simple ... wed have lots of OS's by now :D

lol .. goodluck with that

ZiNgA BuRgA · 10/10/2008 07:34 PM

trademark91 Wrote:
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:The PSP was never meant to be a PC...

true... but isn't the whole point of modding to make something something else? isn't it to make things different, better? Plus if you look at the system capabilities of a PSP, especially the 2000 series, an early version of windows (3.1, 95) could be easily run...

Unfortunately, not true.

Firstly, the PSP and PC have different CPU architectures. This means that a PC » PSP emulator needs to decode/translate PC instructions to the PSP, which is typically a slow process. There are also other components which need to be emulated across. Recall that the SNES is a 3MHz machine with 256KB RAM, yet the PSP cannot emulate it at full speed (probably could if written up from scratch for the PSP, rather than a port, but that should show that emulation is generally a slow and difficult process).
The x86 (PC) architecture, especially, isn't the easiest to emulate, since, well, it's not the best designed (with all these extensions).

Modding can extend capabilities, but typically, can't make a particular machine act like a completely different one unfortunately.

Hope that helps.

trademark91 · 16/10/2008 07:37 AM

o. thanks for shattering my dreams lol. I didnt realize that the psp and pc architectures were different. i just figured they were esentially the same. i guess that its not possible...

trademark91 · 24/10/2008 12:29 PM

on the same subject, would it be possible to make win 95 run at a better speed and more accurate operation using the new utopia sources?

ZiNgA BuRgA · 24/10/2008 04:48 PM

Possibly, but I doubt the difference would be significant, if any at all...

ZiNgA BuRgA · 24/10/2008 06:47 PM

MysterySword Wrote:The PSP is pretty much a PC, anyway. Win95 would be better completely rescripted to run as homebrew (but of course, MS doesn't release the source code). Hmm... it may be possible to to port WINE (program for Linux/Mac OS's that allows them to run Windows programs) to the PSP just for some Windows programs.

It'd be awesome if possible, but I don't think it would be. Wine, from what I understand, is basically a "Windows virtualiser". You can run Windows from Linux because, a) most PCs have much more processing power than the PSP, and b) because the CPU architecture isn't different, thus no emulation needs to be done to translate instructions. The PSP «> PC interface is different in that the two use different architectures, thus you can't natively run EXEs on a PSP, whilst you could on Linux (provided that you have the necessary Windows API, ie Wine).

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