Not to mention the fact that linux doesn't even have GPU access

I ran starcraft on my 386 machine so im not really impressed by this..

you could be able to run up to pentium4 games from this only using the software emulation only(due to the fact that you can't use the GPU), but i've one question, why windows 95, and not windows 98?

be able to run nes emulators too?

Yeah, people been doing that for ages. You can check out youtube videos of Linux PS3's running emulators for NES, SNES, GBA, Arcade, Mega Drive and so on. They run pretty darn well.

to run Fall Out 1 and 2 and Diablo 1 and 2 with this. That would be cool. I believe they are about as old as StarCraft, can't remember though.

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that Windows 95 is less power hungry. If he was running 98, the game would be nearly unplayable. without GPU access... that game would run like *****. but on windows 95, it runs a bit better. '



ok, lets look at a basic pc's setup......



it took a single core to run win 98, so by rights, it would take a single core/dual core to run linux......thats only 3 cores for the whole thing, so i don't understand why you couldn't do this unless there is a problem with the memory handling all this, due to having the two OS running at the same time and playing the game of course?



the GPU shouldn't really be needed for software emulation, as you still have another 3 cores at least?(allowing for two cores to run background services i.e xmb etc?)



and also, if MOD/scientists are using the ps3 to run certain software, that would probably a lot more advanced than the guy here has just done, then surely it would cope?



at the end of the day, its a powerful pc running old software!?

Given that my 386 had a 12 MHz CPU it would take more than 266 operations per 386-operation to make it more sluggish than it was on my 386 so what's your point? You think Qemu isnt more well-written than that?

I think that the main reason that this works is because Starcraft uses software mode rendering.



And really, this is awfully silly anyway. I mean, why not just pull out a computer made in the last 11 years or so, and play some starcraft.



the only real requirements are:

a cd drive or alternative

a computer with about 100mhz or so

Windows 95+ or Mac OS 8+ (probably even works on OS 7...I don't remember)

So, if we can run Starcraft on PS3 using Yellow Dog Linux thru Qemu because it uses software rendering then we might be able to run other games.