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Re: Aros ppc port to ps3.Now that we have homebrew.
« on: January 20, 2011, 04:58:40 PM »
The gfx hardware in the ps3 is quite similar to a gf8600. Given time I dont think it'd be a huge stretch to get drivers written for it. The "problem" as I see it is the simple fact that it seems unlikely (and the responses in this thread support this idea) there'd be much interest in it. The only people who would be interested are those with a ps3 and an interest in AROS (or at best amiga os). Even then it'd be more of an interesting novelty than something a lot of people would use. For the same money or less a person could buy a significantly more powerful x86 AROS box, which is more practical to use as a desktop system, being that it actually is a desktop system  :) Im just not sure how much money could be raised to get a port of AROS onto a system that is relying on a hack to a console. This isnt to say Im against the idea, but as I said it'd mostly just be an interesting novelty, which doesnt pay the cost of a developer porting AROS to it (assuming someone interested in doing so can be found at all). While I wasnt a big fan of the idea for OS4.x for ps3 either at least I saw why people might be interested a few years ago.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.