John,

It would be nice if things were as simple as you said, but they aren't.
First of all, we are _not_ licensed PS2 developers of sorts - all we're
doing is in terms of research (and our connections are exclusively with Sony
R&D and not SCEA). Secondly, so far we have two ports: The first was to
specific hardware (which Sony used to call the Creative Workstation but it's
dead by now) and is only insofar of interest as it was supposed to have a
couple of EE chips in there (we only got it to a single EE chip). The second
port (PS2/Linux) was done by getting the Unix sources and type "make". So if
you can get your hands onto a PS2/Linux version you can port as fast as we
did.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of John
> Hinsley
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:09 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Squeak on PS2?
>
>
> Alan Kay wrote:
> >
> > Andreas Raab put Squeak on PS2 last year -- and I think he and Chip
> > got the Linux/Squeak version going this summer ....
> >
>
> Thanks Alan:
>
> I managed to find the stuff on the list through Google, but can't find
> any source in the usual places. Indeed, without wanting to be market
> shareist about it, there's more space devoted to OS2 than PS2!
>
> (Of course, it may be that the port is so easy that even a ham fisted
> clown like me could do it.....;-)
>
> Here's the situation in my family. My neice has an old 166. It'll run
> Windows 95 without any but the usual problems, but has a tiny hard
> drive, 16Mb of RAM, a puny video card ..... It'll just about
> run Squeak,
> but won't run X.
>
> They've just bought a PS2, which they use pretty much as a home
> entertainment centre. Obviously it makes more sense to turn
> the PS2 into
> a computer than to upgrade the old one or buy a new one. They
> might even
> be able to network the two together and use the PS2 to serve X to the
> 166. And, of course, a programming environment with lots of
> multi-media
> stuff built in would be useful.
>
> It seems to me that if anyone ever needed proof that SqC really isn't
> into world domination, here it is: the biggest market out there, one,
> maybe two, ports ready to go, and no way of finding them!
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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