From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Aug 27 13:21:36 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F48B7637A for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lokadamus@gmx.de) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8627DE3 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:21:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lokadamus@gmx.de) Received: from [192.168.0.143] ([95.91.224.179]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lcjgd-1bEVkH1Exj-00k7fy; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:21:26 +0200 Subject: Re: game machine based on FreeBSD? To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" References: <20160806140306.bbd534544c5dc14c7d7c3317@sohara.org> <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org> <86vayrp8ur.fsf@WorkBox.Home> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "lokadamus@gmx.de" Message-ID: <8d6563c5-22d9-5828-f82a-2dc41bef276c@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:21:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <86vayrp8ur.fsf@WorkBox.Home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:ARGbiZEDc3ZqToMl88s/HQXuIt7XLmx/JUxc/HQOi6JxZvZTR7R C5LqDsuoJEAeKbyq1u+nNQ9VDcbVnwhvWNw7d573CLXA3AS6pyBPn/AMF1iChkdR+S7zBAt jaSrC96EpR5a1AQ35pCR7sVvjswkHLtr/3R1bj1/6Q4XszDfbCWN8jg6DGkhTkybd93B44c nEoaADlnqsVlq0T0JTEFw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:zZsHjbcYHbo=:71m+7Wj2rOkgSFnV20u/fO iCXNRmCO4Z1/6Ou53WyVcIuMIRnZD3GRgNme9YpLqNJORmizuvNdb4CMLzmjAjSY9Uda6fSTU tpNtuhikKKnOso9hpVCOIkVAODqAAw763tpIlCO2Ouo6wq9qroNmOrNI9R3DbgKUSmIW+pX6G 9T7CfKQTDYAzkW/2LHoVW/Lpjpu14BkcXVpqGDX1njWGlz1WMxESjwjSTeVPc0sHo+56u/PSW JK8KwYue+q/xLUPtOMJO4BoOVxJgcjrxPRAWl112FS1GkAn4X3YYOt68fOcsvQNHkiP0O0cMX kLY9GWzTkkT3Djr+1oRAH9Z3LpPj7EB+pQQdF+NLcn5FezmzyIRP+gdI03EJrq21p+4tj/cue 7ybftsrVzk/K2KIde489JXom8k4D0wenuhdlvHo+6tjmEDGH30FpkVCdHvXy4tXul7zlNw4Y+ iAX0U32M55llKXud2d/5n4piHhHIaF8HUH+BXZXuQwFRkXhPnIPzCsRi5hpG4qIpDTyYItN49 LrhkLX5DGUrMH18q4cDMQWeqPEoVvc8YXy+pQKx7jBBT4/BW/Ssn0drQkwuQt9a7sqbihKKAl t1CVIjbClUTyJo+e6YMvgCT67BvKeQWTA93jOuMeTFQc/0qUYzpWTuGwrt4zXvMLHY+1FZhsD wDz0V1f2rGnIy24ZxrM5H3YZWSY7ktSv5WhLu+vlTTeNpscKbbpg57qwnuy3QeXl6/P8LYZ07 hpRpGlk9VVRRSEHO+GgjOxAaA7KmHBr675zR41xU09aV4DNmlkvAWGwCEmUvGfrqwp3whtgWV Q8Nvxw4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:21:36 -0000 On 08/23/16 21:45, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > > Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: > >> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:05:41 +0200 >> Luca Ferrari wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith >>> wrote: >>>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:24:30 +0200 >>>> CeDeROM wrote: >>>> >>>>> Playstation4 runs on FreeBSD :-) >>>> >>>> I'll bet you can't get a FreeBSD PC to play any PS4 games >>>> though. >>>> >>> >>> Uhm..that's interesting. >>> I've got a few months to decide which game machine to get for my son, >>> and I was wondering to build one by myself. Knowing that PS4 is based >>> on FreeBSD is a good news, even if I suspect it's true that porting >>> some games to FreeBSD pure machine will not be so easy... >> >> Getting at the FreeBSD inside the PS4 isn't easy either, I'm not >> even sure it's possible. > > It's irrelevant. FreeBSD doesn't run the games. It runs the proprietary > encoding and DRM software and speaks to the custom-made hardware that in > turn run the games. Ask yourself how building a custom PC with FreeBSD > on it would run Sony the millions of dollars it spent developing the > thing. > Looking for an emulator and found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ps4emulator/comments/475fh4/ps4_emulator_sony_playstation_4_emulator/ There are some other projects, most for Windows. I don't know how good this emulator is, sorry. Greetings.