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Tachikoma_Pilot
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Gaming Console

Post by Tachikoma_Pilot »

Ive been looking at open source gaming console's for a little while now and wondered if you guys see a modified version of react ever powering such an endeavour.

Now these projects never seem to get off the ground, sadly.

How difficult would it be to modify reactos (once completed) to be some sort of gaming OS, ala PSP and PS3 OS?

And no, I'm not into open source console's just for the heck of open source, I actually think opening up the tools to write games on a standard platform, would be beneficial to gaming.

Reference sites.
http://ogcs.10.forumer.com/ (Open source console)
http://www.ogre3d.org/index.php?set_alb ... _album.php
(Potential portable tools to form an SDK???)


What do you guys think?
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Re: Gaming Console

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The possibility of ROS being used as a "gaming OS" has been brought up before. Simplistically, it would be quite interesting to have a very stripped down version running on a regular PC. After all, it's not as if games make use of all the services in a regular OS. This would free up quite a bit of resources and as we've seen what's possible when basically all the hardware is committed to playing a game, in consoles, it would allow for some pretty spectacular stuff. But again, this is something for future consideration as we're a long way from even attempting this.
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Re: Gaming Console

Post by Tachikoma_Pilot »

Thanks for the reply 8)
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Re: Gaming Console

Post by FlyingIsFun1217 »

Z98 wrote:This would free up quite a bit of resources and as we've seen what's possible when basically all the hardware is committed to playing a game, in consoles, it would allow for some pretty spectacular stuff.
I think the main reason they perform so well is because they are designed to run games with good hardware, having games written specifically for that hardware, not a general OS.

Would be very interesting to see though :D

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Re: Gaming Console

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I had the idea that ReactOS could be a console OS a while back. I think i will start experimenting when 0.6 is released.
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Re: Gaming Console

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Well, that might be a while...

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Re: Gaming Console

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FlyingIsFun1217 wrote:Well, that might be a while...

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I know :/

Edit: Well I am messing around with it now but not *full-time* :D
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