Playstation 2 Linux Games Programming
(The new site can be found here )
I lecture on the BSc and MSc
Computer Games Technology courses in The School of
Computing and Creative Technologies at The University of Abertay Dundee (UK). My teaching interests are mainly
associated with programming games consoles; I've programmed the Sony
Playstation 1 Net Yaroze for a number of years and more recently have moved to
programming the Playstation 2 Linux Kit. At Abertay we have two games console programming laboratories, one
containing PlayStation 2 Linux Kits the other containing Playstation 1 Net Yarozes.
These pages hope to help those of you
who would like to get started with games programming using the Playstation 2
Linux Kit.
If you have any comment on
these tutorials, I can be contacted via the email address at the bottom of this
page. If you don’t know what the Playstation 2 Linux kit is then visit http://playstation2-linux.com/.
I would like to thank:
Jonathan Hobson (kazan)
for providing some of the program code and text.
Alex Mole (lordbosh) for
providing the controller pad code.
Maarten Hofman for
providing the Audio code.
Steven Osman (sauce) for
developing and making available SPS2.
And Sony for making the
PlayStation2 Linux Kit Available.
For the majority of these
tutorials you will need the Direct PS2 Access Environment which can be
obtained from https://playstation2-linux.com/projects/sps2.
One final word – these
tutorials are not coded in the highly optimised manner that you might find in
professional game code. The tutorials are meant to illustrate certain methods
and techniques and are therefore written in an instructive manner that should
enlighten the reader.
Have fun.
(Note: The manuals
referred to in the text of the tutorials can be found in the directory sm_pdf
which is in the root directory of DVD 1 that comes with the Kit.)
PlayStation2 In Higher Education - So You Want To Be A Games Programmer? -
Read Atricle.
The PS2 Direct Memory Access Controller -
Read Atricle.
Using the DMAC in Games Programming -
Read Atricle.
A selection of PS2-Linux games and demos can be found -
here.
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(These tutorials and accompanying program code are used at your own risk. The author accepts no responsibility for any damage caused by running these programs.)
