Hi fellow PSX owner! Tried WipEouT yet? :)
The new Sony Play Station is operating under a stripped down Unix. Considering the speed that these boxes are designed to run at it seems a natural for somebody to come up with a crypto workbench on ROM to install in one of these babies. Could program one of the game controller ports as a serial port and hook it to a Linux box (for example).
For those who don't know, the PSX is a CD based gaming console released (in the US) in Sept by Sony. It's a MIPS R3000/25MHz processor with some SGI-designed polygon chips, 2x CD-ROM, 1M RAM, 2M video RAM. As for serial port, why bother with the game port when there's a serial I/O port on the back (the link cable that lets you hook two PSXen up to play head to head (Mmmmm, Destruction Derby)). What would be _really_ spiffy would be for Sony (or a 3rd party) to put out a "hack disk" (for lack of a better name) that would have a bare bones kernel that you could then download stuff from another platform (gcc cross-compiled from your linux box for example). Like that'll happen. The line between toy and real machine is getting more and more fuzzy (we use a box here at work with the same processor to compile for an AT&T telephony switch (which tells you how sad the AT&T product is :) :))). How long until the NSA tries a Chinese Lottery attack hidden inside a Nintendo cart? Ah well, I've rambled enough. --- Fletch __`'/| fletch@ain.bls.com "Lisa, in this house we obey the \ o.O' ______ 404 713-0414(w) Laws of Thermodynamics!" H. Simpson =(___)= -| Ack. | 404 315-7264(h) PGP Print: 8D8736A8FC59B2E6 8E675B341E378E43 U ------