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Name |
Description |
Subprojects |
 | GravaStar | Belive me or not, but there is a life on the Mars. Try to find it with the Grava Star Game. A Martian action/strategy game for Linux Kit | None |
| | Homebrew Haven | Homebrew Haven provides PS2/Linux kit owners with the documentation, tools and libraries they need to write PS2 native software that is loaded by the RTE bootloader. Such programs are assured full access to the PS2's hardware without the performance and operating system penalties imposed by the Linux operating system. Eventually Homebrew Haven hopes to provide demo, game, and application developers all the tools needed to run both standard and kit-bootable PS2 software. | None |
| | IGGS_PS2 3D engine | IGGS_PS2 is the name of the project our team has taken. What this project is about is utilizing the strengths of the PlayStation 2 hardware, as exposed through the SPS2 development library and libps2dev , in a meaningful and understandable way in order to provide strong foundations for a modern game engine using techniques that focus on hardware friendly approaches rather than complete reliance on the Linux operating system abstraction of the PlayStation 2 architecture.
Our engine will work towards providing a graphics API (Transformation, Lighting, Clipping, Texturing, etc...) a basic game logic, animation and basics physics support.
Our engine will feature also a model loader based on 3DSIntmd and IntmdLoader as provided by the PS2conv project:
http://playstation2-linux.com/projects/ps2conv/
Ideas and suggestions were taken also from Henry Fortuna's PlayStation 2 Linux home-page at:
http://www.hsfortuna.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
A lot of thanks go also to Sparky, Sauce, Cashimor, nAo, Fafalada, ERP and others on the #sps2 channel for their help, guidance and moral support (and some deserved kicks in the butt ;)).
We want to make a point of a good documentation of the engine's components and of the algorithm/ideas chosen during development as we hope the experience we gather working on PlayStation 2 might be useful to others as well as to ourselves. We will make such documentation available in the future through journals published in HTML format as well as providing pre-compiled and working binaries. | None |
| | joypadlib - A joypad library | The standard joystick interface exposed through Linux, which is used by the samples included with PS2 Linux, is inadequate for accessing all the features of the newer Playstation joypads. Among the things you can't do with the standard Linux joystick interface are:
-Read the analog sticks
-Read the pressures on the "digital" buttons
-Set the joypad vibration
To address these shortcomings you could open up the devices directly in your own program and access and use ioctl commands. The problems with this approach are many:
-ioctl calls are ugly
-The format of joypad data isn't very well documented
-Accessing the raw data returned from the devices is
cumbersome and error prone
The joypadlib library hides most of the ugliness and complexity of accessing the joypads, which will hopefully give anybody using this library more time to create games. | None |
| | KISS Renderer | The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) renderer is a basic Path 1 rendering library built on top of SPS2 and intmdloader. It supports backface culling, trivial clipping and a simple parallel/ambient lighting model. A set of functions are supplied for uploading VU1 microcode, geometry and texture data. The library could be used as the basis for a game engine, or as sample code when developing your own renderer. | None |
| | Laatukauraa (demo) | Laatukauraa is a tAAt (http://www.taat.fi) combined demo contribution for the Assembly 2002. Unfortunately it was not shown on the big screen, but here it is. Enjoy.
Includes source code (uses PS2GL). Does NOT contain the used libraries (libmad (http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/) for mp3 playback and ODE (http://www.q12.org/ode/ode.html) for physics.
Requires the newest bigphysarea kernel patches (for PS2STUFF).
| None |
| | lesschess | This is a port from OpenGL to SPS2 of a simple, fast, 3D chessboard program. Not all of the chess moves are yet implemented, e.g. castling, and no checking for endgame situations (like checkmate or stalemate) is performed. However, it compiles and runs perfectly fine, and is perfect for those moments that you don't have a chessboard handy... | None |
| | LfP German documentation | The documents that are available now about Linux for Playstation 2 are mainly in english (or japanese)- other languages were not available.
That's something this project wants to change a bit: With Your and my help, we can translate important general and technical informations to german.
Please feel free to contact me.
Die Dokumente, die jetzt über Linux für Playstation 2 erhältlich sind, sind in englisch oder auf japanisch - andere Sprachen sind nicht erhältlich.
Das ist etwas, das dieses Projekt ein wenig ändern möchte: mit Deiner und meiner Hilfe können wir die wichtigen allgemeinen und technischen Informationen auf deutsch übersetzen.
Bitte kontaktiere mich hierzu. | None |
| | lightWave scene preview tool for PS2 | LightWave(tm) scene preview tool for PS2 helps the user design an animation sequence in LightWave 7.5 onwards and play it back with as much fidelity as possible on the console.
Scene files are exported using a (supplied) plugin on the PC (MacOSX support coming soon) and then are played back on PS2 using the native playback code.
The playback code will be made opensource, however, since the LW scene exporter on PC/Mac uses proprietary code to extract some data from LightWave scenes, it's not possible to make it open source.
For a start, this project will be directed and crafted by one programmer, and will be made accessible to public when mature. | None |
| | Lunar Lander | Lunar Lander is a fun little 2D game based on realistic Newtonian physics. Thrust, acceleration and fuel mass loss are accurately modelled based on the actual specifications of the lander. The object of the game is to guide the lander to a safe touchdown while battling the relentless force of gravity.
I am using the SDL and SDL_mixer libraries to provide 2D graphics, sound and music. | None |
| | memcardlib - A memory card library | The standard memory card interface exposed through Linux ends up being a little
cumbersome in real applications. If you want to read or get information about the
memory card you end up having to open the device and do ioctl commands on it. If
you want to write or delete files you end up having to mount/umount the memory card
into some known directory and then perform your file operations. This library
collects most of the things you might want to do with a memory card; such as
determine the type and read, write, or delete files; and wraps them up into a neat
interface, making the whole process of managing memory card files much easier. | None |
| | MIDI monitor Art | "MIDI monitor Art" is a one of the visual musical instruments.
It's controlled by MIDI messages, then you can perform sound and visual live with playing the MIDI instruments.
It's consists of 4 parts, rhythm, bass, harmony, and solo.
Please check http://f27.aaacafe.ne.jp/~songen/ | None |
| | Music Box | The purpose of musicbox is to be able to setup playlists quickly to use your ps2 to play music at a party or instead of the radio, etc. Will be fullscreen application with a slick gui. Plays MP3 and OGG files. Controllable completely from the ps2 controller. Will have a plugin architechure to allow you to create 'visualizers' that play along with the music. | None |
| | Old School Games with SPS2. | I will be rewriting some old games like Pong, Pacman, Breakout and Space Invaders for example.
The purpose is to create a few more examples of using the SPS2 library.
The code needs to be well commented so beginners can understand it.
This is more a tutorial than a rewrite of games, some files might even just be examples in stead of games.
All code, graphics and sound needs to be created from scratch so the games will not be identical to their originals.
The examples does require sps2 0.4.0 or later.
Please E-mail me with questions or suggestions.
bamse@playstation2-linux.com
Thanks to Steven "Sauce" Osman for writing the SPS2.
https://playstation2-linux.com/projects/sps2/
Thanks to Henry S Fortuna for the excellent Tutorial.
http://www.hsfortuna.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
/Bamse | None |
| | OpenGL Stuff: sample OpenGL code | OpenGL example code and other OpenGL related stuff. If you would like to learn how to program graphics with OpenGL then, Checkout the examples here to learn how, starting with the basics in 2D graphics up to basic 3D graphics. (see http://www.OpenGL.org for more info about the language) | None |
| | Opie for PS2 Linux | This project was created to build the Playstation 2 a fully functional UI while at the same time using as little resources as possible, maintaining performance. | None |
| | Peach Gardens | Peach Gardens is a 2d adventure game for Playstation 2 Linux kit. The game is situated on a wonderful piece of land, where nothing bad ever happens. In this world, a young boy is about to leave his parents to start a life of his own in some far-away land. As a player, your job is to guide the boy through various challenges that shape his skills and prepare him for his chosen profession. The game features exploration, puzzles, trading, some role-playing elements and mini-games.
Peach Gardens uses libps2dev library. Full source code is available at project page. | None |
| | Pinp Is Not Pool |
====== Everything is now uploaded and in final form as far as we are concerned ====
This project is (at this stage) exactly what it says it isn't: a Pool game for the PS2 :)
The intention when this project was started was to create an arcadey Pool game with powerups, jumps, different playing surfaces etc... We were not able to achieve this in the given time, but otherwise it's a nice entertaining game :)
The game has been in development by us - a team of 4 at the University of Canberra - for about a year now, as our final year Engineering project. It was done mostly working on Saturdays and perhaps a few days here and there where we could fit them in.
To do in the future (probably by other willing people, since we don't have access to PS2s outside of uni):
Implement the 'arcadey' portion.
Make physics run better (on VUs?).
Whatever anyone comes up with :). | None |
| | PlayStandard Linux Project | PlayStandard is, or will be, a collection of tools designed to optimise the Playstation 2 Linux environment. All PS2 media is designed so it meets the PS2's power, and does not go over. Software developed for linux does not take this into account, and so we hope to delve deep into the Playstation's power and form a guideline for producing future software, providing code snippets and tools, even perhaps a kernel, for doing so. This will make it go faster, eliminating the need for RAM hacks. | None |
| | PlayStation 2 for Education | The PlayStation 2 for Education project is for those of us using the PlayStation 2 for education. The project is a place where we pass on to others how we use the PlayStation 2.
The project will have reviews of software we use to educate ourselves and software we use when we are at our schools or other places of learning.
The project will be a resource for other projects that are building software for education, providing a place to find people interested in some topic or education related project. It can provide help or pointers to more information when that is needed.
The PlayStation 2 and the Linux kit provide a good way to learn. This project provides a place to start learning with the PlayStation 2. | None |
