Links We Like: Restoring a Xerox Alto, Reconsidering Cyberpunk, & Investigating the Sony PYXIS 360

Xerox Alto Photo by  Michael Hicks

Xerox Alto Photo by Michael Hicks

This week’s Links We Like follow Ken Shirriff restore a Xerox Alto, reconsider the future as told by cyberpunk fiction with Darran Anderson, and teardown the SONY PYXIS 360 portable GPS unit with Dave Jones.

If you’ve found any interesting links this week, make sure to share them in the comments below, or in our forum. We’re always on the hunt for new links to get lost in. Have a great weekend!

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4 New Community Projects to Explore with Your PocketC.H.I.P.

3D print of marjoras_other_mask's first design

3D print of marjoras_other_mask’s first design

The NTC forum is full of Pocketeers pushing PocketC.H.I.P. to its full potential. The hacks are getting more frequent and more ambitions. If you’re looking for hacks to explore, the forum is a great place to start your adventure.

Just this week, Marjoras_other_mask shared a great case hack with a kickstand, FireflyII added a thumbstick-mouse for precision control, and debianUser and emuboy are trying out different window managers to radically change the user experience.

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Community Project: Emulate the PlayStation on Your PocketC.H.I.P.

Yopaz IceStar by Orion_

Yopaz IceStar by Orion_

We’ve already seen the Pocketeer community emulate the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Genesis, and even Virtual Boy on PocketC.H.I.P.! This weekend, limni figured out how to get PCSX ReARMed, a PlayStation emulator, working on PocketC.H.I.P..

Best of all, this is a project that only takes about twenty minutes and doesn’t require the official PlayStation BIOS to work.

Some of you older Pocketeers like me might remember back in 1994 when the PlayStation first launched. But that wasn’t Sony’s first attempt at breaking into the video game market.

In the late 80s Sony worked with Nintendo to develop a CD-ROM add-on to the Super Famicom (SNES). The product never made it out of R&D labs, but it gave Sony a bit of experience in developing a console. For more on the early history of the PlayStation and other Sony consoles, check out PlaystationMuseum.com.

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Links We Like: Restoring a NeXTstation, a History of Palm Computing, & Linux Turns 25

The NeXT Cube

The NeXT Cube

This week’s Links We Like admires the clean design and innovative software of the NeXTstation, traces the history of the Palm personal digital assistant, and celebrates the 25th birthday of the Linux operating system.

If you’ve stumbled onto an interesting link or two, make sure to share them in the comments below, or in our forum. We’re always on the hunt for new links to get lost in. Have a great weekend! ᕙʕಠᴥಠʔᕗ

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Use PocketC.H.I.P. to Blast Hordes of Invading Spacecrafts in OpenTyrian

OpenTyrian running on PocketC.H.I.P.

OpenTyrian is a vertical scrolling space shooter straight out of the mid 1990s arcade. It’s fast paced, full of power-ups, and best of all, it’s easy to setup and play on PocketC.H.I.P..

Published in 1995, Tyrian was a closed source DOS game that featured fast action and space shooting. In 2007, Jason Emery, the lead developer for the game, released the source code to the OpenTyrian team, who were dedicated to creating a cross-platform port of the classic. Thanks to Emery’s gift and the hard work of the OpenTyrian developers, you can play the game on just about any system.

Not only does OpenTyrian runs well on PocketC.H.I.P., it’s also easy to setup network play and fight back the waves of enemy ships with a friend.

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