February 2005 Archives
My Powerbook has become The Blob of my digital devices. It has swallowed whole my television and DVD player. It has bitten the head clean off of my work PC (RemoteDesktop is truly wonderful) and is leisurely gnawing on the bones of my desktop machines at home. It's still only nibbling at my stereo, but it would greedily gobble up a closet-full of Atari 2600-era video games if I turned my back. I'm seriously considering feeding it my home phone line as well.
Feeding time came again last month with the first beta release of PCSX, the first functional OS X-native Playstation emulator. The first few games I tried - the only ones I really care about - came up flawlessly: Intelligent Qube, Hot Shots Golf, and Tekken 3. Considering it's an early test release, this is outstanding - my compliments to the developers.
I've also purchased a PSX controller adapter from Radio Shack for $10 that completes the original Playstation experience perfectly. One more device in my Powerbook's belly.
