14 Mar
2009
14 Mar
'09
5:31 p.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
Quite a few people used the PSone LCD panels to make
other portable
machines and other stuff like that. The only Playstation I have is one
of the original 1001 models that was modded.
Famous for CD drive issues. I had a 1002 (UK version of the SCPH-1001), and it
blew the read laser after ~1 year. Replaced it with an SCPH-7502 (the last PSX
with parallel and serial ports) and last time I checked it still worked fine.
Know of anybody that ever made use of the serial and
parallel ports on
the original PS1's?
The Net Yaroze development kit used the serial port to transfer code to the
PSX, and a lot of cheat cartridges and external modchips used the parallel
port. The latter allowed an external device to force the PSX to boot from an
external ROM.
I ended up building a serial cable for the PSX, but never did anything with it
beyond transferring a few demo apps onto the machine and running them. I also
seem to recall having a MIPS/psx version of gcc, but I haven't seen the CD
with that on in a very long while.
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Phil.
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