Pc in a NES (great project)
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i bet the guy who originaly come up with that is @#!*ed :)
i thought emulators and roms were illegal?
i thought emulators and roms were illegal?
i thought emulators and roms were illegal?
Not if you own the game and system already. But I think some of the stipulations have been lifted on that too - except for games pertaining to certain companies (especially nintendo) and certain games that still bring in revenues like the mario games. Of course I could be wrong....
Yeah, that looks fun. Maybe the cartridge loader can be replaced with a DVD Burner, possibly? Not too sure if that would fit, tho. Needless to say, I could just hack an XBox and get almost the same result, after all, an XBox IS a computer in disguise, after all... Same hardware technology, with the right hacking and software, an XBox can become a Win XP PC.
I'd much rather take an old PSX that I got, and try to do the same thing, the CD-ROM that the PSX has can easily be used as a computer CD-ROM without too much difficulty. Just mod the insides, gut the PSX, and use the motherboard for an AMD 64 3500+, 1 GB RAM, 80 - 160 GB HDD, Windows Vista or Mac OS X Tiger (assuming that Apple launches a version of that for x86), and I can use a PSX as a Macintosh of sorts. Maybe go for a graphics card that'll actually fit in a PSX (know of any sound or graphics cards that'll fit?). That just gives me too many good ideas, knowing the way I was talking of late.
I'd much rather take an old PSX that I got, and try to do the same thing, the CD-ROM that the PSX has can easily be used as a computer CD-ROM without too much difficulty. Just mod the insides, gut the PSX, and use the motherboard for an AMD 64 3500+, 1 GB RAM, 80 - 160 GB HDD, Windows Vista or Mac OS X Tiger (assuming that Apple launches a version of that for x86), and I can use a PSX as a Macintosh of sorts. Maybe go for a graphics card that'll actually fit in a PSX (know of any sound or graphics cards that'll fit?). That just gives me too many good ideas, knowing the way I was talking of late.
i heard it was impossible to get xp on the xbox but linux was possible. I currently have an old xbox as a linux file server
I wonder how Vista would work on an XBox, I mean, it's somewhat based off of Linux, same with Mac OS X, if I'm not mistaken.
Ahh, here's a book that I discovered that you could use to turn any Game Console released over the past 30 years into a decent PC this day in age.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931836310/sr=8-1/qid=1142878022/ref=sr_1_1/102-5756370-9822558?%5Fencoding=UTF8
I'm sort of curious as to what you would do to an Atari 2600, tho. My guess is that you would probably have to have a specifically made DVD-Burner Drive that can fit into the cartridge slot, maybe rebuild a motherboard that can fit in there. If I'm not mistaken, was an Atari 2600 smaller than an NES? I don't think I ever had an Atari before (my sister did, but that was before I was born in 1980, then I had a Texas Instruments, which is already a computer).
Then again, I wish this book would help with an old TI-99/4A PC to turn it into a regular old desktop. You already have the keyboard. You can turn the cartridge slot into a DVD Burner, hook a USB port into the Speech Synthesizer slot for maybe an external HDD, which would house your OS (preferably Mac OS X or Windows Vista), and you would have M.E.S.S. installed on there (which is by far the best TI emulator around right now). I'm not too sure if there's any easy way to hack a TI, Commodore 64, or Apple II, tho, that's where I'm getting at, since they have the keyboard, not too sure if it could be used as well as today's keyboards can be used, since those were more limited back then. You'd probably have to map the keyboard similar to a Windows or Mac, which could take some thinking...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931836310/sr=8-1/qid=1142878022/ref=sr_1_1/102-5756370-9822558?%5Fencoding=UTF8
I'm sort of curious as to what you would do to an Atari 2600, tho. My guess is that you would probably have to have a specifically made DVD-Burner Drive that can fit into the cartridge slot, maybe rebuild a motherboard that can fit in there. If I'm not mistaken, was an Atari 2600 smaller than an NES? I don't think I ever had an Atari before (my sister did, but that was before I was born in 1980, then I had a Texas Instruments, which is already a computer).
Then again, I wish this book would help with an old TI-99/4A PC to turn it into a regular old desktop. You already have the keyboard. You can turn the cartridge slot into a DVD Burner, hook a USB port into the Speech Synthesizer slot for maybe an external HDD, which would house your OS (preferably Mac OS X or Windows Vista), and you would have M.E.S.S. installed on there (which is by far the best TI emulator around right now). I'm not too sure if there's any easy way to hack a TI, Commodore 64, or Apple II, tho, that's where I'm getting at, since they have the keyboard, not too sure if it could be used as well as today's keyboards can be used, since those were more limited back then. You'd probably have to map the keyboard similar to a Windows or Mac, which could take some thinking...