Xynth (Windows for PSP ?)

[wraggster]

Anhanguera has released a Windows Lookalike shell for the PSP, heres the news from the coder:

I was working on a embedded windowing system (xynth), and ported to pspsdk. give a try...

what is xynth; xynth is a portable embedded windowing system, it has nearly all features that you might expect from.

I do not know if v1.0 is working, mine is v1.5. Sources are avaible on site, but source file is rather old... i`ll upload latest sources next week.

After lounching xynth please wait till desktop (blue screen will shown with icons) opens, and memory stick stops blinking. what i have is, a server that handles windows (clients), a desktop client, a taskbar client which is a child of desktop. move the mouse cursor with D-pad (X left button, O right button). and click twice on desktop icons... or, open start menu by pressing X on start menu icon. only demos are working...

Clients open as threads, and they talk to server via pipe emulation over socket emulation. I am using UDS on linux, but if there is no socket api, socket api emulation with pipe() is used. If there is no pipe, or fd.., pipe emulation with mutexes is used.
Pressing X on the left-up corner will couse the xynth to quit, or you can close xynth by pressing home button as usual.
You can resize or move any window.
One last thing, some times xynth dies becouse of memory problems... I do not understand why this is happening, becouse i am using xynth over SDL, vesa, svgalib, fbdev on linux and there is no such problem, even with valgrind (www.valgrind.org).
Excuse for my english, is not so good to write such long writings Alper "anhanguera" akcan. even with valgrind (www.valgrind.org). Excuse for my english, is not so good to write such long writings

Download from Here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/xynth.shtml

[scx0r]

Damn this is what its about wooohooooo!!!! we now have some os to work on

[ultros]

is there a way to automatically load this (or any other) application, after switching the PSP on?

[scx0r]

i wouldnt, its a bad idea.. plus ive just tested this and it crashes a hell of alot... i guess someone has to come up with a less buggier os for us to use .

I want to see a port of X11 that way we can run kde etc.

[Hacker3.0]

how do you get this to work

[pakkman781]

Nice! We still need an X server, though. An X server would allow for much easier portage...

EDIT: Ouch! I've tried it now, and can't run any programs, it crashes before I get a chance. Also my mouse doesn't work hardly at all. Still a WIP tho, so no big deal...

Looks to have great promise for a port of Firefox!!!

BTW: What ever happened to development of Nano-X?

[scx0r]

We need an X port , VERY BADLY...

X would allow us to run a graphical interface such as KDE , GNOME AND MORE....

basicaly get god damn porting peeps, i have no idea how to port yet, but im downloading everything required as i type this...

hopefuly if you guys dont do it , i bloody will.

What would revolutionize the psp experience? a working X port for psp's kernal.. imagine it, firefox would be possible, and heck TCP/IP is based on netbsd's so probably the best idea is to port netbsd parts over to psp, more compatible.

I'm really interested in the porting of fs mount, being able to mount my hard drives over psp vise versa would kick some arse (this is old school people get on it)

God im gonna learn to do all this myself LOL

[DraconumPB]

If linux can work on an ipod, it can work on a psp.

Of course, i think that linux bricked my ipod (the bootloader stopped booting either the regular firmware or the linux firmware), so i'd suggest treading carefully, but it's still exciting.

I think I'm going to try this out. Dunno about nano-x though XD

[THINKABOTIT]

Does Anyone Know How To Install?

[Smiths]

you can't brick an ipod, you can always boot into disk mode and run the ipod updater software.
i thought i screwed up my mini with linux installations several times and just went into diskmode, made it think an older firmware was on it and "updated" with the apple software. kept all my music and settings and restored everything just fine.