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Windows 95 and Linux on the PSP
Saturday, Aug. 13 2005 | Author: Griffith
A guy named Matan Gillon has reported that he has successfully managed to boot up Windows 95 on his PSP by porting an open-source emulator called x86 to the portable system.
According to him, Windows 95 takes about 10 minutes to boot up but afterwards it’s pretty usable and you can even run some applications on it, however, for both Windows and Linux, he says you can only do so much with a mouse only, until someone makes a keyboard for the PSP both OSs are pretty limited.
If you’re interested in infesting your little beauty with Microsoft love check out his site and follow his simple instructions.
Original announcement on PSP-Vault.
Too bad the little processor will never be fast enough to handle Tiger…
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38 Responses for "Windows 95 and Linux on the PSP"
October 11th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
1I have managed to boot DLX Linux on my psp using Matan’s guide and it works fine – you just can’t do much without a keyboard… I do not know, however, how to make .img files of the win95 os so I can’t run that.
November 19th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
2Where do I get the x86 emulator
November 19th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
3Where do I get the x86 emulator
November 24th, 2005 at 1:49 am
4at http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/ ok?? good
December 6th, 2005 at 1:20 am
5Yea right!?!?!? I take only like 0ne minute to install a picture of windows in my PSP
here is how
1.- open some windows but not maximised.
2.- press Ctrl + print screen keys of your pc keyboard
3.- open paint and press ctrl + V of your keyboard
4.- whalaaa!! you must see your windows image
5.- go to File->save as (and save it as any name) (and JPEG file type)
6.-save to yor x:/PSP/Photo of your memory stick wich you use to view your pictures in your PSP
now exit the usb connection or insert the memory stick in your PSP, browse the photo and look for your windows picture open it and press triangle and choose full screen, use down arrow and whalaaa Windows in your PSP, take a picture of your entire PSP with this image and post it in any of your favorite forums and tell the world that you are an expert and that you are running windows in your psp. hahahahaha
December 6th, 2005 at 1:27 am
6Also if you have 2.0 you can set it as a background in your psp and when you handle it to any of your buddies they gona be amazed lol.
December 20th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
7ur an idiot….
January 4th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
8would be cool assign some buttons as some keys on the keyboard , so i could lauch dos and some dos games and play em :)
April 1st, 2006 at 6:41 am
9payday loans Keyword doesn’t matter
April 18th, 2006 at 12:05 am
10MFG!! the PSP os wud kill windows anyway…
June 27th, 2006 at 1:00 am
11how do i get windows 95 on my psp i have virsion 2.71
June 28th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
12You can use a portal for 2.71.
July 15th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
13you can? how? must know.
July 16th, 2006 at 7:44 am
14Ok. i figured out how. But it’s CHEESY!!! at least with the bochs one you have the REAL Windows. and it’s possible to install games on it too. The portal version sucks, you can’t even right click!….
hey, um.. would it be possible to run bochs VIA a portal? like, taking the photo of windows out of the picture frame and standing bochs behind it or summat?
August 4th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
15how do i get windows for 2.8
August 5th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
16you can go to (www.pspwxp.co.nr) its just a portal but a good 1 and it has the all known PSPTunes included
August 18th, 2006 at 5:42 am
17i was think’n about gett’n this emulator, and instaling virtual dj, basicly u can be a dj on the go sounds cool hu.
September 17th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
18dude if i have the windows 95 cd, how can i install it on my psp?
and if u install windows on ur psp, can u still watch dvd’s and play psp games?
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:55 pm
19hey can win95 for psp run the wireless internet? that’s all i really need it for
October 12th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
20does linux support wifi
December 10th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
21can u just tell me how to put win95 on psp i want it bad
December 10th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
22is it possible to put win95 in your pc and save in psp
December 18th, 2006 at 8:39 am
23I just want to say thank you for taking the time & effort for put this web page together!
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January 26th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
24done it, i run it on reverse devhook on my 2.71 hen-d psp, when running in devhook, it is limited to 15 mb of memory, the rest of it is system stuff, etc, it does work. to make an image: make your configuration file, and get a copy of MS-DOS images (i used 6.22). 2: point to the install images in bochs to run the setup 3: when dos is installed, put this line under the harddisk line in the config:
ata0-slave: type=cdrom, path=x:, status=inserted (replace x with ur cdrom drive)
4: put in the windows 95 cd rom, and set it up
5:when win95 is done installing, put an ms0: in front of all the paths in your bxrc file.
5: put the image, bios, vga bios and bxrc file in a folder called VM in the root of ur memory stick.
6: run bochs on ur psp and hope for the best
-dan
February 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
25can you run indows 95 on version 3.11?
February 16th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
26can you just copy the disk strait to the psp and name it EBOOT?
February 16th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
27do you know were i can find a downgrader for version 3.11
February 17th, 2007 at 4:20 am
28no, the latest downgrader is 4 3.03 ONLY. u will have 2 wait.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
29k thanx
February 17th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
30can you do anything on v3.11 except for games movies photo and music, you would think its pretty restricting for what these little babies can do.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
31couldnt you get the pbp unpacker and combine the windows setup and the next version update (EG v3.20) and update it could work?
March 5th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
32TITS ON PSP
March 8th, 2007 at 8:28 am
33think first, why do you need win 95 on psp? once you’ve answered this its unlikely that its for more than one reason, if you want wifi, update to a later firmware, if you want dos games you can easily get a dos emulator for psp if you want win95 just to show ur friends and look cool, ur wastin ur time, pointless without a keyboard, and for people wanting to put linux on it…again without a keyboard, if you want all this just buy a laptop.
March 10th, 2007 at 9:06 am
34i realllllllllllllllly want windows on my psp please
March 10th, 2007 at 9:35 am
35i need run linux on the psp i have “linux” and “linux%” but i need the folder sda1 please help me!!!
March 21st, 2007 at 8:50 pm
36I have firmware 3.11. Can I run windows or linux on my psp?
March 24th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
37If you have installed Linux on your psp, is it still possible to still run UMDs on it.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
38Is it possible to run a dual boot, like the IPod ?
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