Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:21:25 +0200 From: "lokadamus@gmx.de" <lokadamus@gmx.de> To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: game machine based on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <8d6563c5-22d9-5828-f82a-2dc41bef276c@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <86vayrp8ur.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <CAKoxK%2B56Fc3Pks6cCDOs394z5HxO5qmOo8u7j2iRSgnGk5CvMQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjntpoq_1kt_O%2BTMeNSXV5ERX2qWNkDKW61Sb_VUJBTxEA@mail.gmail.com> <20160806140306.bbd534544c5dc14c7d7c3317@sohara.org> <CAKoxK%2B52dgi01A=tqvxJFS7nW0-2XsKRVe4-iHa7vXq1gM31zw@mail.gmail.com> <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org> <86vayrp8ur.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
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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 <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> >>> wrote: >>>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:24:30 +0200 >>>> CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> 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.
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