Sourabh’s blog

Whoever you are, one thing cant resist is the Sony Playstation Portable. The idea of a sleek device which is powerful enough to be an entertainment system playing games, movies and your favorite music on the move and qualifying to be a hand-held itself seems to be a good reason to buy. In an effort to de-throw Nintendo from the handheld market and be a better choice than the Nindendo DS, we were pleased to see the pricing of the Sony PSP being very competitive and would be the first choice for anyone at a price of 249$. If you were wondering what would be the price in India, believe it or not its available in India at a street price of nearly 11-12k.

Never mind about the fact that you need to buy legit copies of the game UMD which cost a bomb which ranges anything from 2-3k INR. If you ever wanted another reason to buy the Sony PSP, here it is - you can now run Windows/Linux on it. This is indeed true and has opened the door for a wide range of options that the PSP can now do, not limited to but including the running of: FreeDOS, Linux, DLX Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, PicoBSD, Pragma Linux, Debian 3.0r0 and 2.2r5, and any other disk images with pre-installed systems on them.

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If you were wondering how would you work on Windows? Here are the controls slated

Directional keys - Mouse movement (press repeatedly)
SQUARE - Left mouse button
CIRCLE - Right mouse button
CROSS - Middle mouse button
START - Opens the windows start menu
SELECT - Quits immediatly (though you should shutdown windows instead)

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I agree, all these things are only for the fanatics who wont mind wasting their time to make their gizmo be able to have one more feature on their ‘Device capable to‘ list.

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