Adam's Continuity at BlackAcid » PSP Programming

FreeBSD and LibUSB

aballai — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:32:53 +0000

I’ve come by a couple interesting snags with my psp homebrew toolset. Using psplink in my environment of choice has given me more trouble than I beckoned. Currently, using usbhostfs_pc tool will do the job until you exit. Upon exit the FreeBSD kernel will throw an exception. I have a feeling this is either a problem with libusb or how usbhostfs_pc uses libusb. I’ll have more on this later. Still hacking.

PSP Graphics Programming

aballai — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:37:20 +0000

Wow… let me just say the homebrew console dev community as a whole, are one of the brightest groups of people I’ve ever ran into. Ask a question and you get an answer worth more than your question =)

Well let me not rant on about how cool these guys are, but spit out the daily dwindle of what consists of programming on the PSP.

So I got off to an early start, around 4am, where I ventured into the realm of low level console development. I chose the path of least resistence, as per usual, the hard way. Regarding myself as a person who always takes the hard way, I gain a large amount of pride and self-respect. I need it, its for that complex I have ;)

Arriving at (0,0), I opened up vim & pspsdk docs and ran! Damn it, I was telling myself. I didn’t get far at first, so I reached the conclusion, sample code and lots of it. So I read through tons of code, finding a uniform style to stitch something together with. In return, I gained some knowledge I didn’t intend to.

The outcome: beginnings of my very first engine.

Features:

Double Buffering, PNG Rendering, Rectangle Drawing, Control Event Handler.

Thats all for now.

Busy, Busy, and Busy

aballai — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:44:55 +0000

It’s been a hell of a week with tossing and turning between personal, business, and education. I’ve succeeded in re-entering a University to finish up my BSE in programming. Biggest feat of getting a business plan written for a new venture is completed, or so I think ;) Alas, I’ve gotten requests for possible work. A healthy note always works.

So whats under my dev-blurb for the last 24 hours you ask?

I loaded up FreeBSD-6.0 Release on my HP zv5410us – thanks to cokane for the help he pointed me to at defcon last year! =)

Looks like I got this blog properly working and running under my hackish design of four cols =D

I accomplished a series of annoying builds, builds, and rebuilds till I had an outcome of a
full homebrew psp development toolchain setup… not very difficult to make oopo’s script to work properly under freebsd. If you can’t figure it out, well email me or join #pspdev on freenode.

Looks great, feels great, the psp that is. I wrote a couple tests for the 1.0 psp that work as predicted ;) Simple text-based output and shapes, nothing special. I’ll try some algorithms in a bit and try out the pad!