Month: August 2005

So Sony annouced the 2.0 update to be available in the US on August 12th. This came and went and became ‘the week of August 15th’, which has also come and gone. Postings on the SCEA Playstion website from people who have called Sony are now saying ‘sometime between Monday to Friday.’

Intel have announced a dual core Pentium CPU to compete with AMD’s Opteron and Athlon64 dual core chips, but have admitted it is a ‘hack’.

From a marketing perspective this seems like a dangerous thing to admit – I don’t think too many people are going to be interested on spending the big bucks on a new CPU that is basically just ‘a hack’ – apparently this new CPU is more like two Pentiums bolted together. I wonder how hot that will get?

This is incredible. This guy has ported the open source x86 emulator, Bocks, to the PSP… and has screenshots of running Windows 95… on your PSP… (but it takes 10 minutes to boot!)

Rumor had it that Sony were plannning on releasing a firmware update for the PSP in the US that amongst other features added a Web Browser to the PSP to use the WiFi networking.

This update has already been available in Japan and was expected to be released by Sony in the US on August 12th, although nothing has appeared on their site yet.

This is obviously a very eagerly awaited update – on the PSP forum on the Sony site one thread discussing (and waiting… waiting…) the update collected 11952 posts on and around August 12th. Sony have posted a message on the board saying the 2.0 update for the US will be released during the week of August 15th – but it’s still not here yet…