PS3 port thread

[nbarnes]

...and another thing...what will really HELP is the LIMITED amount of DRIVERS required for PS3. Porting to x86 would be a COLOSSAL waste of effort cos then you'll get disgruntled new users going bananas cos device xyz is not supported.

Look at Linux, I've been a stern advocate of this OS for MANY years (before all the nice graphical install routines) but it STILL bugs me (have to muck around with kernel modules and having to rely on Joe Bloggski from Poland to get his finger out for some software incompatibility issue between different releases and "distributions". What a pain in the ar*e! - no offence to anybody in Poland, it's just a fictional example...)

This is NOT what an average user WANTS. It's not what I want at all. We just want things to WORK....and THAT is where the beauty of the PS3 comes in: RESTRICTED amount of hardware to support out of the box. It'll just work and then we can all be PRODUCTIVE doing whatever we want. And THEN, if anybody wants to produce a driver for device xyz then well done you! The important thing is that the BASE system should JUST WORK and we won't get that with an x86 port (sorry guv, don't recognize your NIC, you're screwed mate).

The biggest PLUS though is that a PS3 port (of OS4) would just be plain SEXY, and you can't say that about some bland, anonymous tower system. It'll get HEADLINES.

It has GOT to be the way forward.

Also, remember this: It is EASY to think of many reasons NOT to do something but if we all thought like that we'd never have faked the moon landings ...

 ;-)

[nbarnes]

...and another thing...

The dead horse I'm flogging is called LAZARUS and by God if we flog him hard enough he'll damn well get back on his feet. If we flog him some more he'll win the Grand National.

Why am I here? Last week, I was talking with my new assistant over a problem that we were having at work. My good spec PC (running XP) was creaking and grinding and basically giving me a hard time. Outlook was "not responding" and I was in a hurry. It seemed like forever to fix (pc was locking up) had to reboot etc ,YAWN. How can a 2.5ghz P4 with 1gb of memory run so SLOW under so little load?!
I'd also been struggling with getting a logitec webcam to work on a Debian Linux laptop (fool that I am). I was in a bad mood.

I started saying to him: "give me an Amiga". He didn't know what it was. So I told him.
Now, I was thinking about buying a PS3 so i put two and two together and thought "What a nice pair they would make" and got googling. Sure enough, other people were thinking the same thing and THAT's how I ended up joining amiga.org. I haven't TOUCHED an Amiga since 1993 but it's STILL got a hold. Weird. Got the bug back. Feels good.

[nbarnes]

Joanna....shoot me between the eyes if you want...WII's and XBOX 360's=tacky. PS3=sexy.
There are many, many old amigans who haven't kept in touch with what is going on, they don't know about os4 etc.

I'm one of them and it never entered my head to do a google on "Amiga port to WII", the only "google" was for a port to PS3. Why? Why? Ps3=sexy. It may not even be the best technical solution - but it'll work and it WILL SELL.

If any of you have any influence then MAKE THIS IDEA WORK!

Otherwise, you will all be "martyrs to the cause" - which is where some of you feel most comfortable - and then you will all grow old and die and Amiga will die with you.