A little more than a week ago a guy named Kalle Persson, whom I had only spoken to a few times over the internet about some issues with my computer, asked me if I was interested in helping him build a point-and-click adventure game à la Monkey Island. Since I happen to be incredibly unemployed, and won’t be starting university until this fall, I happily agreed to help him out whatever way I could.

And thus our epic quest to create an epic game about a man on a quest (we’re still working on the specifics) began!

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Today I wanted to take a second to shine some light on a blog by one of my readers, which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. As he himself puts it, the goal of his blog is to…

[...] help console owners get the most out of their gaming machines. As far as this site is concerned, that typically means the things that it can do other than simply playing games. With a little tweaking, either the PS3 or the XBOX 360 can be used as an HTPC, media front-end, or simply become more functional in a variety of ways.

The PS3 can even be dual-booted with Linux, giving it a variety of new abilities, and turning it into a stripped down desktop computer, if one so desires. However, the information for doing some of these tasks is alternately vague, nonexistent, or found in a variety of places that can be difficult to find. That’s where this website comes in.

There will be an attempt to create fresh, novel uses for the consoles and to record those results here; in addition, where useful information already exists, we will supply links to the relevant sites and descriptions of the information and its value to readers.

So if you have an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3, I definitely recommend that you check it out. In fact, if you are fortunate enough to own a Playstation 3, you just have to install Linux on it. There’s no debating this - just do it! If you can play twenty year old games on a console that is brand new and costs more than a fully working car, you just have to!

www.consoleoverdrive.com

Welcome to part two of my article series on console emulation in Linux. In the last article we were discussing emulating the various Nintendo systems, anything from NES to Nintendo DS and even the legendary VirtualBoy. If you haven’t read that article, or have no clue what emulation is, I suggest you take a quick look at that one first. This time we’re going to shift our attention from Nintendo and instead take a look at some systems from SEGA, as well as the Sony Playstation.
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Welcome to this blog’s first article series! Over the coming weeks we are going to be discussing console emulation in Linux, and what options there are for us out there in the Linux world. Throughout the articles I will focus on regular consoles as well as portable ones. I might go into older consoles (meaning anything that came out more than 10 years before I was born), but I don’t have as much experience with those as more modern consoles - so I don’t know yet. But for this article, we are going to take a good hard look at the Nintendo family, from the NES to the NDS!

If you’re more of a SEGA or Playstation guy, hop on over to my article on those systems!

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