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Sony NOT suing Connectix,and Linux Pre-7 out 75

Posted by sengan from the not-suing-so-far dept.
Rahga writes "Connectix CEO and President Roy McDonald states: We were unable to reach anyone from Sony Computer Entertainment America to comment on whether it had in fact filed anything. (legal action) " He goes on to hint at a PC-version. Tons of you are also pointing out that Pre-7 is out. Thanks to Rik van Riel.
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Sony NOT suing Connectix,and Linux Pre-7 out

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  • ie ftp.bz2.country.kernel.org
  • IANAL, but defending IP to avoid loosing it only applies to trademarks, not to copyrights or patents.

    I don't recall reading anything about Apple suing Ardi for their Executor product. Considering that Connectix, like Ardi, has used none of Sony's or Apple's (respectivly) intelectual property, they would be laughed out of court.

    The transcript would look something like this:

    Sony: They copied our playstation! That's not
    nice! Whaaaaaaa!

    Judge: Now Sony, you need to learn to share. Go
    apologize to Connectix right now or you'll
    have to stay in during recess!

    Of course, your "vile thievery" comment gives away your post for the troll that it is.
  • Can you price that out??

    On price watch, this is what i get: (under-estemating)

    PII 400MHz - $400
    decent mobo - $80
    64MB RAM - $70
    4GB HD - $100
    CD + floppy - $100
    3D video card - $120
    case + p/s(an ugly one) - $25

    TOTAL: $895

    You can get one for under $600?! where?
  • I can't build one file from the PCMCIA package (3.0.7). In short it gives me this message when building. Everything else works fine (now running pre7)...

    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients'
    egcc -c -O2 -D__KERNEL__ -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -DMODVERSIONS -include ../include/linux/modversions.h -DMODULE /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1110: parse error before `config_must_be_included_before_module'
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1110: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1111: parse error before `config_must_be_included_before_module'
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1111: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1112: parse error before `config_must_be_included_before_module'
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1112: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1113: parse error before `config_must_be_included_before_module'
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1113: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1114: parse error before `config_must_be_included_before_module'
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c:1114: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
    make[1]: *** [8390.o] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients'
    make: *** [all] Error 2

    Oh and my serial mouse don't work anymore. (My modem does, )
  • If you don't pay Apple's inflated prices you could've just bought a real PlayStation and not worry about using a $3K machine in place of a $200 box.

    Duh.


  • Out of the box, VGS cannot read burned CD's or imports. It checks for these.

    However, within a day of its release, unofficial cracks were out which "modchipped" VCS, so to speak, allowing these CD's to work with VCS.

    By the way, the color of the CD means absolutely nothing; the fact that a PSX CD is colored black is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. The copy-protection is accomplished by other means (for example, if I'm not mistaken, the 15th sector of a real PSX disc has a bad CRC).
  • Much faster than what? Than a PSX chip? Sure. That goes without saying; most of us wouldn't be caught dead using a computer with equivalent chips to those found in modern game consoles. The thing is, a console chip can pour every last cycle into some game-devoted activity. Similar chips in "real" computers can't do this; they have other things to worry about too. So much, in fact, that you need a fast machine to even come close to the speed of a PSX when running PSX games.
  • Must you post things like this? You realize this thread is going to baloon to something like 300 comments in the next few minutes as the Apple-bashers start in on you. I'm not certain of the number of known bugs in the two operating systems (though last I heard they were quite close, and I can't remember who was ahead; both demolished Win32 though). And everyone knows you don't insult Linux on Slashdot unless you want to be reduced to ashes in the barrage of flames.
  • actually...the black CD has an extra layer of plastic for scratch resistance and it reflects at a lower intensity than say, a gold or silver even.

    I guess that makes sense. I was thinking more in terms of piracy protection (though I suppose it could be used to do that also, if Sony were to work with the laser to get it just right).

    And I'd imagine there were more bad sectors; I only knew about the 15th. Thanks for clearing those issues up, though.
  • come on jobs is a control freak oss is COMPLETELY antithetical to his isntincts.

    You so sure about that? Then I ask you, why hasn't he killed MkLinux? Actually, here's a better one: if Jobs hates OSS so much, why do the OSX developer CD's include the source to the entire command-line layer, even though it's BSD so they don't have to do that?

    Yeah, Jobs is still warming up to the idea of OSS. And yes, I'll admit, he's a control freak. But don't underestimate him.
  • Apple sues other companies that try to clone or duplicate their work, but somehow it's allright when they steal?

    Apple had nothing to do with VGS, outside of blessing it as a major boost for the Mac platform. VGS was created by Connectix, a completely different company.
  • hold the CD up to a good light and you note that it's purple, not black. Black would probably block the laser.
  • Hi,

    the driver for my ps/2 mouse does no longer get loaded with 2.2.0pre6. In var/log/messages, there
    is an entry
    modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-1
    which should not be there, since the ps/2 driver is no longer a module (it got integrated with the keyboard driver)

    What do I have to do?
  • Sengan 'forgot' (?) to pass on that the latest kernel is available from my server that's living 2 hops away from the SurfNet backbone:

    ftp.nl.linux.or g [linux.org]
    humbolt.nl.linux.org [linux.org]

  • Does anyone remember the URL that pointed to a page by Alan Cox I believe about migrating to kernel 2.2 and the necessary utilities you need to update? I need to goto this kernel, and I have *some* outdated stuff on my box. Libs and whatnot are up to date, but I believe I need new net-utils and all those fun things.
  • ..when we already have Wine (and it's getting almost usable)
  • While running pre6 which compiled in 2:26 on pre5 with compiled in 2:25 on 2.0.36.

    Wheee I love super fast kernel compiles, I got the download, configure, compile, reboot in under 15 minutes.!

    Andrew
  • Ding, we have a troll. I'm looking at the text file for the emulator I downloaded about a month ago. It requires at least a 486 CPU, 24MB RAM, and a fast 3d card, and recommends a P2-233 or K6-2 233, 64MB RAM, and a fast 3d card. Works under 95, 98, and NT. This would be psemu pro from http://www.psemu.com if you want to see that you are indeed a troll and I am not making this up. P2-233 a fairly standard machine now. I don't know anyone who bought a computer in the past six months who bought anything less than that.
  • OK, Troll-boy, I'll bite.
    >>The weak, slug-like x86 architecture is far too lame to be able to handle PSX games.
    no. PSXemu runs nicely on my P225/MMX *WITHOUT* any 3D acceleration.

    >>obsolete CPU architecture
    Is worse than obsolete OS architecture?

    >>like Apple's G3
    Motorola has made every Mac processor since the 68000, not Apple

  • A troll follow a troll.
    I wonder if I should insult, like, say...emacs, and go for a world record.
  • Bet that's got more horsepower than your dual PII. Or if that's too much money, they 1,2,4 G3 processor boards for less money. Total Impact [totalimpact.com]
  • That was the more accurate headline for the story the other day about letting a lower court's ruling stand regarding SW patents.
  • I remember hearing that Sony and Nintendo actually sold the game boxes at a loss, in favor of the huge profit margins they get on the games. Granted, this was over a year ago, but it seemed like a pretty good business model to me. Sony only stands to lose money if gold CDs can be played on the virtual game station, a problem which both Psyke and PS Emu Pro said they had plans to address (ie, check for Black CDs).
  • Really, is there any pride in being the first post to an article?

    Personally, I had doubts about posting that article, because it just said that no action's been taken yet. The determining factor was the CEO's remarks.
  • I always use the same .config and just run "make oldconfig" (make oldconfig reads .config and scans through the config process and only prompts you for new options)
  • You sir, are full of crap.

    I had Crash Bandicoot 2 running on PSEMU at 12 FPS.
    This is on a P200 *WITHOUT* hardware acceleration.
    I'd imagine a PPro/PII would run extremely well.

    Oh, and BTW: Apple dosen't make the G3 - Motorola does.
    PPC architecture was (IIRC) a joint venture of Motorola, Apple and IBM.

    Slackman
    FreeBSD - Linux - OpenBSD/Sparc

  • You don't research things before you say them do you? Check out psemu.com [psemu.com], then make a factually correct post. As for the G3 vs. PII statement, don't go around trying to start flame wars, to each his/her own.


    Force Recon Half-Life TC: Check it out [cass.net]
  • (Correct me if I'm wrong)
    The psx uses a motorola processor like the mac and this lets the emulator take advantage of similarities between the processors.
    If Sony had chosen to use a intel processor some intel freak would be ripping the mac.
    So keep your pants on and realize they are both about the same.
    They are compeditors so each will release one slightly better than the other every couple of months.
  • And I still bet that Apple system software, megabyte for megabyte, is far better quality code and better debugged than even Linux software.

    hahaha, okay, it's official. This guy is on drugs!

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