Hi, i've been looking around, and im hacking my PS1 to turn it into a mini computer so if any of you know or can come up with a good Video Card Emulator, direct me to one plz [or E-Mail me at alfa4445@yahoo.com].
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Hello, I'm new here to the Xbox-scene forums, but i've been around my fair share of places, so I know how to talk on the forums without pissing people off. Being that this layout is vastly different from ModDB's forums, excuse me if I mess up anywhere. Anyway, back to the topic. My friend and I (well, its just me now, my friend abandoned me on this project ) were contemplating about getting a PC, but we had no money (we were also looking for a cheap alternative to dedicated servers for a modification we were thinking about). So one day, I looked toward video game systems. After stripping apart my Playstation, and looking at how big it was, I thought of turning it into a small laptop (You know, soldering in USB ports and the like, I was ignorant back then).
My friend gave me false specifications (He said it was 1 GHz. Divide it by ten, and thats how powerful a Playstation REALLY is), and not knowing this is looked it up in the wikipedia. After that (and lots of frustration at my friend's constant false info) I turned toward an old Dreamcast (I wanted to open my Xbox, but I'm 13 and my parents wont allow it. But I'll get to that in a minute.). My friend gave me False specs again. This time he claimed it was 1.2 GHz with a theoretical yield of 2.4 GHz (never listened to my friend again after that.). I was disappointed to find that it was a measly 206 MHz and that the controller ports had a transfer rate of 2 MBits (NOT Megabytes, Megabits. Theres a difference. 1 MB= 1024 KB. 1 MBit= 128 KB) which was 1/6 the transfer rate needed for USB componnents, so memory expansion and USB keyboards were impossible.
So, obviously, the Xbox was my only alternative. With some hefty specs (733 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 233 MHz GPU, etc.) that would serve as an average PC, with 4 propreitary USB ports. Now, what I want to accomplish is turning this into a functional PC that I can [hopefully] use the program Gmax (a modelling program) surf the internet, and play Counter-Strike or Warcraft 3. Nothing fancy, I dont even need a bigger HDD (I can partition a part of the HDD to use as a slow form of RAM, couldnt I?). Although a 60mm fan in the top to help cooling is a good idea.
Anyway, does anyone have advice, or can refer me to any tutorials? Also, what would be a safe distance to overclock the CPU to? 733 MHz is ok, but I'm sure I can get a little more out of it. To accomplish what I want, I'd need to run at least Windows 98, and I couldnt find any tutorials on the subject. So, is it possible? (keep in mind that I'm 13 years old, i dont have a budget) Well, besides that, I hope my stay here will be a long one.
How did you beleive a PS1 had 1ghz, 256mb ram, seeing as it was released in 95, when PC's didnt have more than 16MB RAM back then? or something
Not necessary, rarely depends on a situations.-=VampyR=- said:Spartan-048...cloning accounts equals ban,I think.
Hello said:Hi, i've been looking around, and im hacking my PS1 to turn it into a mini computer so if any of you know or can come up with a good Video Card Emulator, direct me to one plz [or E-Mail me at alfa4445@yahoo.com].
montpics said:Video Card emulator? Never heard of it in my life.