Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

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163 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | source

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pjmlp ◴[15 Nov 24 15:29 UTC] No.42147763[source]▶

From all the variants mentioned across the comments, the PS2Linux was the best one, being officially supported by Sony.

Originally they had though as a means to foster indie development, instead people got to use it for emulation, thus PS3 Linux Other OS no longer supported graphics acceleration, and then was completly dropped in a firmware upgrade.

On the PS2, we had official Linux CDs from Sony, a hard drive, connection cables, and a whole development environment, a GL like API, another more low level console like, both with hardware acceleration (although the actual one used on the devkit wasn't exposed).

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1. DrillShopper ◴[15 Nov 24 17:36 UTC] No.42149014[source]▶

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I had that kit and it was really good.

I actually used it to write a small game to demonstrate the PS2 architecture in my CS undergrad capstone project.

It was slooooooooow even by the standards of the time.

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2. pjmlp ◴[15 Nov 24 18:04 UTC] No.42149324[source]▶

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I still have mine.

Unfortunately not seen a use in years now.

Did you use PS2GL, or the low level one with what is now kind similar to what devs are exposed to on Metal, Vulkan, DX12?

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