On Wednesday 22 May 2002 7:39 am, Dave wrote:
> On 22 May 2002, zakk wrote:
> > > All of 32 megs.
> >
> > It comes with a 40 gig hard drive, and ethernet, where are you getting
> > 32 megs from?
>
> System ram.
>
> > > If all it takes is chipping the machine, then I'd say it's well worth
> > > investigating.
> >
> > I'm sure it'd be worth investigating if you have friends interested in
> > running, say, xmame on it without the Linux part.
>
> My idea for using Linux on a PSX2 is to strip it down to only what's
> needed to get a game running, at least for when your game is ready for
> distribution.  In the case of xmame, it would be just like xmame for
> Dreamcast: boot a disc and play mame games.  Yes, that would be illegal
> given the MAME license, but you get what I'm talking about.

I have created a CD which boots directly into Linux and then runs XMAME 
SVGALIB, the idea being you can play mame games at work/college without 
installing any software at all (and thus upsetting the IT department etc...).

1) Do people find this interesting ? If so I will publish the whole project
2) Is this the sort of thing you are talking about for the PS2 

Dave

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Dave Barter
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