Palm Pre Running PlayStation1 Emulation, Better than iPhone 3GS Says Developer

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:05:18 +0000

For those Palm Pre users who got plenty of PlayStation1 games in their store room, psx4all team from ZodTTD is bringing a PlayStation1 emulator for Palm Pre soon. With a demonstration of Wipeout XL running on Palm Pre, the game is running in portrait mode. Landscape mode is also in progress but even if the emulator are able to run in landscape mode, how could we handle the game buttons with the sliding keyboard?

According to the developer, the emulation with Palm Pre is actually better than iPhone 3GS!

There is no sound output (but it’s emulated), as Pulse Audio is required for the Palm Pre, and I have yet to support it. It will come soon.

I have not figured out hardware rotation or scaling, or whether it is possible. Until then I am using the raw framebuffer device and blitting 320×240 software scaled.

I figured out how to read the keypad device on the Palm Pre, though there are times it fails to give a keyup event, making keys “stick”. This is annoying and I’m looking for a workaround.

As things progress I will have fullscreen landscape working as well.

This is exciting times for handheld users, as the OMAP3 SoC (System On Chip) is nice and speedy with it’s ARM Cortex A8! Though the Palm Pre has the performance edge over the iPhone 3GS, at very least with my software, I’m not playing favorites. No worries there

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Palm Pre Running PlayStation1 Emulation, Better than iPhone 3GS Says Developer