Will PS2 run on an "ASUS" eee PC? - Page 2

Top Sgt · 2012-07-31, 05:34 PM

Mods please close this thread

PhoenixDog · 2012-07-31, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Sten

Joke? Ever heard of one?

Jokes are normally funny. Just saying...

vVRedOctoberVv · 2012-07-31, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by PhoenixDog

Jokes are normally funny. Just saying...

Now, see, THAT I found amusing

NePaS · 2012-07-31, 05:37 PM

And who are you @Mordor?

Just wondering,see as most people there would not ask if an eeeee PC can game.

Rockstone · 2012-07-31, 05:44 PM

My gaming machine from 1999 is far more likely to play this game than an eee PC...

Electrofreak · 2012-07-31, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by Baneblade

The Transformer Prime might have the hardware to pull it off, but then you run into this thing called Android.

It's not really Android, it's ARM. My Transformer Prime has a quad-core processor (technically it has 5 if you count the low-power core) but it's an ARM processor, not an x86 processor. Windows doesn't currently run on ARM, but Windows 8 will. Unfortunately, Microsoft has stated that desktop applications will not run on Windows 8 on ARM, save a handful of Microsoft products.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012...-desktop-apps/

ARM and x86 are pretty different however. They employ entirely different hardware and instruction sets, and have a different focus; x86 on maximum performance, ARM on performance per watt. It's a far more difficult to port an x86 app to the ARM platform than it is to port something from Windows to a console like PS3, for example.

Maniox · 2012-07-31, 07:00 PM

Yeah, i have one of these, i think it has a 1.6 ghz dual-core <.<

Rbstr · 2012-07-31, 10:51 PM

I guess I don't feel so bad, considering we've gone on a tangent...

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

ARM and x86 are pretty different however. They employ entirely different hardware and instruction sets, and have a different focus; x86 on maximum performance, ARM on performance per watt. It's a far more difficult to port an x86 app to the ARM platform than it is to port something from Windows to a console like PS3, for example.

Well...the thing here is that ARM, the PS3 and the Xbox are all RISC processors (The latter two are part of the Power family). But they're nearly as different from each other as they are from something CISC (x86 and a few others).
It's not so much about the difficulty of the port at a basic level but that it was recognized as a thing that needed doing. ARM cpus are/were lower power parts so the code isn't written for them to begin with.

Windows running on ARM is like the PS3's OS running on x86. Everything running on the OS would still have to be recompiled/adapted...though you can probably make it easier in many ways.