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Thanks for your efforts. I've added a readme_2008.txt file to the pong, qbert and initial fantasy archives, with your notes inside about gsKit change.

Yes. It's the insane -probably professional- method. You prepare everything to go to gs through massive non-stop dma transferts. I think you can still use gskit normal stuff to draw and it will act properly in regard of Z buffer. I mean, in order to have my little yellow line drawn I had to carefull...

http://home.tele2.fr/~fr-51785/ps2_initial_fantasy.zip
(250000 vertices/frame 3D rendering loop)

Old stuff, but 'optimal' I think.

Note that gsKit is not used as main rendering loop, but used as comfortable graphic library for all non speed-sensitive 3D stuff.

Yes. Keep a secured PS3 with fw 2.01 or lower for future possible RSX fun. Right now you can code yourself rsx with IronPeter's 3D samples or accelerate 2D rectangular bitblts with Glaurung module in existing linux softwares or OS layers. See other posts for details. But at some point in future, som...

Yep I keep links alive. Don't worry. Still unused I think. Be aware the ps2 network adapter is a bit annoying because it has only 4Kb of internal buffer (well I can be wrong since I worked on it long time ago now). That means you can enqueue for a total of 4kb packets but after that some part of you...

Thanks but be aware it's very old (I published these last year in this forum). Also Pong is Pong. Not so exciting. Actually its interest is in the indirect control of paddle by wiimote (wiimote -> pc -> ps2 through pings) Initial Fantasy should become a RPG but for now is just a rendering loop. I'm ...

@Wraggster: Yep

These are a few open sources experiments I've done on ps2. The last one is pure 3D fun... Lets you rotate a .3ds textured mesh. (based on modified saotome's vulib and standard neovangelist's gsKit) http://home.tele2.fr/~fr-51785/ps2_pktdrv.zip (GPL packet driver source for PS2) http://home.tele2.fr/...

Thx a lots!
Got a mac recently because of iphone sdk.
Will try and will see if a port can be made towards ps3 linux (no ETA).

Don't forget why RSX access is so great too... Textures in extra 256Mb! Can we still, in 2.10, upload textures in gpu-side ram and have spu based rendering code use textures uploaded in gpu-side ram? If it's possible, that will be great. If not, there will be an interesting difference between PS3's ...

ps3sdk will be perfect for small, non commercial (free) things, possibly launched from web sites, like flash games, but with some impressive spu-related features (and optional rsx-related features)... What kills small size games? Lack of graphics, mainly textures. Can math help? Yes. There are ways ...

Thanks pitrz for the hint. Demo from Sony at GDC show : http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/02/27/playstation-3-head-tracking-no-gimmicks-no-glasses-just-a-camera-watch-this/ Sony is fast... The video can't be seen from uk, canada & japan, but here is what it shows : Display is the same as the D...

What we definitely need with homebrew on next gen consoles are a few apis allowing to survey cpu and gpu temperatures. So we can display them, trigger alarms, etc...

Great! Thanks a lot!

Better be precise, let's use http://www.edepot.com/playstation3.html We talk about otheros 1.1 and not otheros 1.0, of course, running under 2.10 fw. rci : CECHC04, i.e 60Gb Pal without EE => yes? mc: ? => no dom: 60Gb Pal => without EE, CECHC04 => no Better to assume rsx is dead also on otheros sid...

Ok, let's assume otheros demo 1.1 (which does 2D through RSX) works on fw 2.10. I can't verify myself, there is no way I will upgrade. Maybe that means : - Low level programming for 2D acceleration still works on 2.10 - Low level programming for 3D acceleration doesn't work on 2.10 - Transparent 2D ...

Got my eye! When I have free time and if I manage to code something usable, I will try to post a tutorial for noobs about eye usage on fedora 7... Documentation says : Video capture - 640x480 Video format - Uncompressed or JPEG (interesting!) Frame rate - 640x480 at 60fps / 320x240 at 120fps I will ...

RSX+Spu mix example? Great! Thanks IronPeter!

I find interesting any evil hack that may lead to :
- a firmware downgrader (for those trapped in 2.10)
- more knowledge about the gpu interrupt handler inside hv

Would help to take advantage of RSX up to 100% of its potential (TILES).

Write specific code for SPU's

I think I will buy one now that I've seen the desktop VR demonstration! I wonder if we will be given a little bone... Official sdk owners will be given the code for free to locate player wearing IR glasses, according to the author of the demo (Sony dev). But actually I think there should be way to i...

h264 is a complex algorithm that needs huge calculation power. A few guys are probably thinking about making a h264 codec that can use all available SPU's (6 addionnal processors very fast if focused on specific tasks), but we will have to wait for such a release. What you have is fast 2D rendering ...

I just tried to double click simple_dxt icon. Nothing happened.
Next time I will try using terminal with proper command "./simple_dxt".

In practice, in text mode (don't do the insmod command, startup.sh will do it) : cd libps3rsx cd src cd init ./startup.sh cd .. cd .. cd examples cd simple_triangle make (I don't have g++, since I only did 'yum install gcc'. So I have to use gcc instead) gcc -lm -o ps3gpu ../../src/fifo/utils.o ps3g...

@chrisPrice, we will try to fix your trouble in this tread : http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?p=64103#64103 (linux ps3 forum is good place for support help requests) "The hunting" thread should remain focused on new discoveries or ideas. @glaurung, here is some hypothesis : in fw<2.1...

@IronPeter, Great! Thanks a lot! I will give it a try. I will keep the standard kernel with the 2D acceleration .ko module, and see if I can see that troll! Thanks! @chrisPrice, I think the kernel source I've found is the right one (I see drivers/ps3 and drivers/video/ps3fb.c (33900 bytes) inside it...

Boxbuilder's tutorial (see first posts), managed to compile a specific version of geoff kernel. Unfortunately the URL given by Boxbuilder no longer works, but I may have found another source : http://download.systemimager.org/pub/linux/linux-2.6.23-20071023.tar.bz2 With the .config file supplied wit...

I have fc7, so I'm probably not the right person that will save your day.
Anyone managed to run IronPeter's 3D demos on fc6, with his kernel?

Be much more precise please.
Distro name, kernel version, exact command to compile, .config contents, exact changes, tutorials names, etc... We can't guess what you are talking about.

Good to know thx.