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Insert_witty_name would like to be the new project maintainer and I'm glad to handover the project to him! He leads the new development of Lua Player and maybe merging the PS2 development into the main Lua Player, if evilo have no objections.

I promised the new OpenGL Lua Player for Windows, Mac, PS3 and PSP some time ago, but I'm sorry, I have to work for too many commercial projects at the moment and my interests in my spare time have changed to Lisp and Forth. But I don't want to block further development of Lua Player, which is the r...

Forth is a cool language, see e.g. my vector font project: http://www.frank-buss.de/forth/hershey.html or my upcoming new Forth CPU: http://www.frank-buss.de/forth/cpu1/ Seriously: If you have no programming experience, don't start with complicated environments like the PSPSDK or C. Download an easy...

Shapyi wrote:How is it a copyright protection issue? I'm just curious.

If RSX were available for Linux, it would be possible to play cracked games on it, which is impossible, if you don't have access to the hardware which the game needs.

Shine, I'm interested to see the article you have read that says Cg code can be run on RSX from alternate OS. Because Cg code is just another previous form for shader code and GPU power is mainly based on shader code. In other words, if it's true, then there may be no limit at all except the lack o...

Well, maybe I am missing something but what is the point of the livecd if you only take one file from it? The otheros.bld is the boot loader, which needs to be on the same medium when installing the OS from the PS3 game OS. But it is not allowed to put it on the live CD, so you'll need these two st...

I think the recommend way is to use the new live CD. I've updated the wiki. Currently I'm emerging KDE, hope it works, the base installation works.

Ogg/Vorbis support is a good idea for Lua Player, but I don't like MP3 or UMD access. MP3 has licensing issues ( http://www.mp3licensing.com/ ) and I can't image any legal reason for UMD access. Starting other pbp's could be a good idea, because then Lua Player could be a loader for other homebrew p...

peak blit transfer rate reached so far is > 800MB /sec at tilesize=128 and nspus = 6 (~ same result for 4 spus) max fps of just blitting so far at 720x480i is > 1000fps This sounds better, the 150 fps was really too slow, because this is already possible with pure C loops from the main CPU and with...

avalonakira wrote:I'm just wondering ,then what are you going to do with it?

I'm trying to port Lua Player platforms, which supports OpenGl, so this was one requirement. Sound works already and there is a driver for the controller, so now I need some time, only, and the new Lua Player will be ready.

And yeah, those Japanese PS3 run fine on 220v despite what the sticker on the bottom says ;) That's no wonder. I've opened my PS3 before I plugged it into 220V and can confirm the Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3 ) that it has a universal power supply for 100-240V 50-6...

hlide wrote: is gcc on PS3 able to compile programs for SPE and not only for CPU ?

Yes, you can compile for SPE (at least with my Gentoo installation).

Mac OS X port done! It's written using Cocoa, and threaded properly so we can handle events, quit nicely, etc. Seems to work OK for me on my Core Duo iMac, might be interesting to check it works on a single-processor machine. Thanks, but I don't like Cocoa and Objective C, so I've implemented it wi...

Could you give me a quick "low-down" of what each function does? I guess this; create a Window context, get the width of the window, get the height of the window, swap buffers, and releasing the window? So, could this all be easily achieved with Cocoa and a OpenGL (must use OpenGL) contex...

When doing this, the alpha transparancy is lost. It will now only blit 1 and 0 transparancy, not 50% transparanty. I really should fix my PSP soon, so I can test the new Lua-player and see if this has been fixed. This is not fixed, but I'm writing an OpenGL implementation of Lua Player, see http://...

I've started to rewrite Lua Player with the SCons build management and based on OpenGL for all graphics output. For the PSP it uses pspgl, which has some limitations (see #ifdefs in common/LuGL.cpp). I have tested it on a firmware 1.0 and 1.5 PSP, but it doesn't use kernel mode, so it should work wi...

I've installed it on my PS3 and it works. Just checkout psptoolchain from SVN, compile it with toolchain.sh and add this to your /etc/profile: export PSPDEV=/usr/local/pspdev export PSPSDK=/usr/local/pspdev/psp export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/pspdev/bin Now you can test it with "cd /usr/lo...

How many people here are programming the psp via a ps3? I've thought about this, because it will be faster than the Cygwin environment on my Windows PC :-) Also, when is there going to be a PS3SDK? One that provides easy libraries for getting the sixaxis input, outputting via the GPU (if possible) ...

I don't know about the games, but if you install Gentoo Linux, there is a Sony/IBM provided tool called ps3videomode, which allows the following modes: YUV 60Hz 1:480i 2:480p 3:720p 4:1080i 5:1080p YUV 50Hz 6:576i 7:576p 8:720p 9:1080i 10:1080p RGB 60Hz 33:480i 34:480p 35:720p 36:1080i 37:1080p RGB ...

You can use OSMesa for OpenGL on the Playstation 3. Install it in your Linux installation like this: download MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2, MesaGLUT-6.5.2.tar.bz2 and MesaDemos-6.5.2.tar.bz2 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3 tar -xjf MesaLib-6.5.2.tar.bz2 tar -xjf MesaGLU...

I did some basic benchmarking on the ps3 against a P4 2,8GHZ both on the PPU and the SPU, and well, my P4 beats the ps3 in every test. Only when using 7 threads or more on the SPU, the ps3 beats my P4, but only with little difference. My Pentium D 3,4G would kill the ps3 again. Could you post the b...

On the CELL SDK 1.1 CD is a file cell-sdk-lib-samples-1.1-10.noarch.rpm, which contains the file /opt/IBM/cell-sdk-1.1/src/lib/vector/libvector.h.

Programming the RSX could be interesting, but if you want to write programs, which many users can use, it is a dead-end, because Sony will fix any bugs with firmware updates and then it's like on the PSP. So better concentrate on the SPEs. It is even possible to do nearly real time ray tracing with ...

mtb wrote:Both FC and ydl have PPC64 branches, but their installs for PS3 are 32bit.

I'm confused. I was looking at the install image on page http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/ and it is named "ppc64bcmfix.img". Maybe the Supercomputer Center has released a 64 bit version?

Is it? That would surprise me as ppc64 has been part of Fedora officially since FC4. Most of the Fedora mirrors have all the ppc64 RPMs. Like this one for FC7... http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc64/os/Fedora/RPMS/ Thanks, I was wrong. I tried some tool...

No need to worry: When compiling with -O2, copying the memory with 64 bit access and reordering the access (line-by-line instead of column-by-column) you can do 10 full screen blits with an additional 50 pixel bar overlay in 13 ms :-)

J.F. wrote:Personally, Fedora Core is my favorite distro. I'm running FC6 on my system right now. Never cared much for Gentoo...

One main advantage currently is that the standard Fedora Core version for the PS3 is only compiled in 32 bit mode, but Gentoo is 64 bit (at least the version which mtb has built).

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-linux-distro-kit-20061208-iso/ Cell Programming Libraries & Examples http://www.powerdeveloper.org/playstation.php :) I have burned the ISO image, like described in my manual, because you'll need it for the otheros.bld, and there are some...

It's time to port Lua Player :-) Heh, that would be great:) I think first I have to install spu-gcc to compile programs for the SPEs. Any idea how I can do this on my PS3? I've found http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/lu_zero/wiki/CellTutorial but when trying to call "crossdev ppu" it says &q...

I've written a very unoptimized program, which draws a fullscreen background image and on top of this a moving bar. In 720x480 resolution mode (mode 480i, set with "ps3videomode -v 1") the usable area is 648x432 and with a bar height of 20 pixel, nearly 60 fps are possible. I think when us...