Sidenote: Sony PS2 Linux

A quick look at the official Linux distribution for the Playstation 2.

The idea was that you could code your own games, in a similar fashion to the PS1’s Net Yaroze, I think. The scene is pretty much dead today (early 2000s were its heyday) so I feel it’s mostly a curiosity, considering also the limitations instituted by Sony and the meagre 32MB of RAM.

I’ll get it up and running in a later video – I need to find the sync-on-green VGA cable first.

When I ordered it from Sony it came with the following:
[1] Linux for PS2 software
[2] PS2-branded USB keyboard & mouse
[3] Combined network & IDE hard drive interface
[4] 40GB hard drive
[5] VGA + RCA stereo audio cable

I have since upgraded the IDE interface to SATA and installed a solid state drive.

Unfortunately the official site is long dead (playstation2-linux.com) but snapshots and the full archive are available still:
https://archive.org/details/PlayStation2-Linux.com_Repository

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