Ethan Price wrote:
I was looking at the playstation 2 linux kit on ebay (it is now discontiuned) and was wondering if anyone knew 1.Will a redhat linux distribution of FG (according to the PS2 linux community the linux software is comparable to Redhat linux 0.7) work at all, and 2. should I expect FG to work well? The ps2 is designed for games/software exactly like FG so logic says that FG /should/ run fine.
Disclaimer: I know nothing of the PS2 or of running linux on it. But it's my understanding that games have to be written specifically to the PS2 hardware to get good performance. PC's are much more general purpose and flexible machines (and thus more expensive.) I'm just guessing, but if FG ran well on a PS2 I'd be a little surprised, if it didn't run at all I'd be really surprised. I'm guessing that it could be a fair amount of work to get it up and running on a PS2 ... the base package is large so you have to make sure all that data is available. I don't know how much ram the PS2 has but FG needs a pretty big chunk. I also don't know about texture ram and texture management issues on the PS2 ... you may run into issues there (?)
That said, I'm not aware of anyone trying this, so please give it your best shot and report the results. :-)
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
_______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
