13 Mar
2009
13 Mar
'09
12:54 p.m.
I apologies for the extremely off-topic post, but knowing how people
here tend to be packrats... :) .. and generally nice...
I was given a PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust? I'm in the New Haven
CT area, and don't have cash available...
Yeah, like I said, it's a long shot of a request. Thanks for humoring me.
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13 Mar
13 Mar
2:09 p.m.
I was given a PSOne game console recently. Just the
console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust?
I dunno if it'll help, but in my experience PS2 controllers and cables
work with the PS and PSone.
I may have something I can pop in the post to you; I'll have a
look-see. But probably not before Tuesday.
In an attempt to keep this at least slightly on-topic, has anyone else
played with interfacing PS/PS2 stuff to general-purpose computers? I
did a little of that a few years back and would like to resurrect the
project....
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14 Mar
14 Mar
4:02 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "der Mouse" <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Longshot: Looking for Sony PSOne accessories.
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.
Know of anybody that ever made use of the serial and parallel ports on the
original PS1's?
I was given a
PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust?
I dunno if it'll help, but in my experience PS2 controllers and cables
work with the PS and PSone.
I may have something I can pop in the post to you; I'll have a
look-see. But probably not before Tuesday.
In an attempt to keep this at least slightly on-topic, has anyone else
played with interfacing PS/PS2 stuff to general-purpose computers? I
did a little of that a few years back and would like to resurrect the
project....
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1:31 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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1:38 p.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "der Mouse" <mouse at
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Longshot: Looking for Sony PSOne accessories.
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.
Know of anybody that ever made use of the serial and parallel ports on
the original PS1's?
LCD? Not on the PSOne I have...
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I was
given a PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust?
I dunno if it'll help, but in my experience PS2 controllers and cables
work with the PS and PSone.
I may have something I can pop in the post to you; I'll have a
look-see. But probably not before Tuesday.
In an attempt to keep this at least slightly on-topic, has anyone else
played with interfacing PS/PS2 stuff to general-purpose computers? I
did a little of that a few years back and would like to resurrect the
project....
2:16 p.m.
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
LCD? Not on the PSOne I have...
They were sold as an optional extra by a few third-party manufacturers. IIRC
Sony never sold an "official" PSone LCD panel...
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2:42 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Philip Pemberton
<classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
They were sold as an optional extra by a few
third-party manufacturers. IIRC
Sony never sold an "official" PSone LCD panel...
I actually own a pair of "PSOne LCD Combo" units, bought with a Sony
LCD attached to the PSOne right out of the box. It's a very clear LCD
unit, and a joy to view compared to some of the third-party externals
that were available. And as was said before, very hackable too. :)
Josef
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9:18 a.m.
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 14:09 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
In an attempt to keep this at least slightly on-topic,
has anyone else
played with interfacing PS/PS2 stuff to general-purpose computers? I
did a little of that a few years back and would like to resurrect the
project....
It's a bit-banged synchronous serial interface, pretty much the same as
NES/SNES controllers. Tell it to get ready, then start toggling the
clock pin and data pin. IIRC there is a DATA and COMMAND serial line on
the PSX/PS2 interface, DATA being the controller-to-host connection and
COMMAND being host-to-controller. I can't remember if timing is
important. "Not too fast" I think ;-)
Gordon
1:37 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Not a problem. Thanks. :)
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From here to there,
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I was given a
PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust?
I dunno if it'll help, but in my experience PS2 controllers and cables
work with the PS and PSone.
I may have something I can pop in the post to you; I'll have a
look-see. But probably not before Tuesday.
13 Mar
13 Mar
2:47 p.m.
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 12:54 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
I apologies for the extremely off-topic post, but
knowing how people
here tend to be packrats... :) .. and generally nice...
I was given a PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust? I'm in the New Haven
CT area, and don't have cash available...
Yeah, like I said, it's a long shot of a request. Thanks for humoring me.
It's an interesting little MIPS-based machine, *well* over ten years
old. I'd say it's pretty much on-topic by now ;-)
Gordon
3:38 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 12:54 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes
wrote:
Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom says Dec 2000.
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"From there to here,
From here to there,
Funny things
are everywhere."
--- Dr. Seuss
I apologies for the extremely off-topic post,
but knowing how people
here tend to be packrats... :) .. and generally nice...
I was given a PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust? I'm in the New Haven
CT area, and don't have cash available...
Yeah, like I said, it's a long shot of a request. Thanks for humoring me.
It's an interesting little MIPS-based machine, *well* over ten years
old. I'd say it's pretty much on-topic by now ;-)
Gordon
3:42 p.m.
I was given a PSOne game console recently.
It's an interesting little MIPS-based machine, *well* over ten years
old. 
5:49 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
What, it uses an Alpha CPU, not MIPS? ;)
It must! Cool, I can load OS/2 on it!
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From here to there,
Funny things
are everywhere."
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It's
an interesting little MIPS-based machine, *well* over ten years
old.
Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom says Dec 2000.
7:35 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
It must! Cool, I can load OS/2 on it!
Ha ha! This is where we start an "OS/2 for the PSOne" rumour to rival
the "OS/2 for the PDP-11" one from a while back...
Rumor? Who said anything about a rumor?
;)
Heh heh heh... I can be a bastard sometimes...
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Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom says Dec 2000.
What, it uses an Alpha CPU, not MIPS? ;)
10:26 p.m.
At 4:29 PM -0500 3/13/09, Jules Richardson wrote:
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
What, it uses an Alpha CPU, not MIPS? ;)
It is a MIPS R3000A CPU. The Playstation was originally released in
December of '94 in Japan. It was discontinued in March 2006.
I think the real question would be which model and will that effect
it being on topic? Since you say PSOne, it sounds like you have a
late-model Playstation that was released after the PS2 came out. My
Playstation is over 10 years old now.
Zane
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It's
an interesting little MIPS-based machine, *well* over ten years
old.
Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom says Dec 2000.
11:08 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 4:29 PM -0500 3/13/09, Jules Richardson wrote:
I don't have it here, but it's the little white one. Not the
Playstation, but the PSOne. IIRC, many people incorrectly refer to the
original Playstation as the Playstation One, or PS1...
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Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
What, it uses an Alpha CPU, not MIPS? ;)
It is a MIPS R3000A CPU. The Playstation was originally released in
December of '94 in Japan. It was discontinued in March 2006.
I think the real question would be which model and will that effect it
being on topic? Since you say PSOne, it sounds like you have a
late-model Playstation that was released after the PS2 came out. My
Playstation is over 10 years old now.
Zane
It's
an interesting little MIPS-based machine, *well* over ten years
old.
Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom says Dec 2000.
14 Mar
14 Mar
12:29 a.m.
At 11:08 PM -0400 3/13/09, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
I don't have it here, but it's the little
white one. Not the
Playstation, but the PSOne. IIRC, many people incorrectly refer to
the original Playstation as the Playstation One, or PS1...
IIRC, that one wasn't released until after the PS2 came out. They
were dirt cheap, and targeted at people who didn't already have a
Playstation and didn't want to spend $300 on a PS2.
Zane
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