Yet Another New User!
Posted: May 15th, 2019, 4:01 pm
Howdy!
I am glad that I found this community! I never knew that these old retro systems had people still developing for them, let alone pushing the boundaries of what these systems can do! I've been here for only a few days and I am already getting motivated to start working on stuff!
Some context...
I am, as of this post, a junior in college; Computer Science major. However, I don't consider myself all that great with programming or with Computer Science in general, which is a weird perdicament for me, considering my ambitions to work in Cyber Security as a career. I have had some experience with Java (I kind of lost it though), and I'm currently in the process of learning C for my coursework. Yet, I never really took to it as much as I should have - I really only did the assignments in class, and left it at that. A lack of ambition and retention has not been kind to me.
The general advice that I have received from all of my mentors when it comes to coding is to "find a reason to want to code; find projects that you want to work on, and keep your nose to the grindstone." Over the past few months, I have really gotten into learning about how online gaming works, how systems connect to each other, and how these companies run their services. After learning specifically about the Xband Modem from the 90s and projects like the DreamPi, I figured that any of these systems, including the PSX, could have some networking functionality. Although I don't intend to become a game developer for the PSX, or for any system for that matter, I would definitely like play around with the PSX, and try and have the know-how to make something like a PSX-like DreamPi a reality, but time will tell, and I have a looonnnnggg way to go before I have the skills to pull that off.
I have really enjoyed seeing the work that Lameguy64 and danhans42 have done; in particular the PSXNET project and the ESP8266 chip projects; definitely steps towards something bigger. I wish you guys the best of luck!
As for a place to start, I have taken it upon myself to download all of the resources here on the website (although I am having trouble getting psyq working on my Win10 64 bit machine; I'll save that for another post). Even though at the moment it's mostly Greek to me, I am excited to decipher it all. Along side my personal resources for learning code, I hope I can have some project, no matter how small, done within the year... that's my deadline!
It also helps that I used to collect PS1 some years ago, so I have a sizeable collection to do testing and what not. Unfortunately, all three of my PSXs have bit the dust, and I got no hardware at the moment, but I'm on the hunt for two replacements!
Anyway, I'm just happy to be here... I look forward to reading the forum every morning with my coffee! Cheers!
I am glad that I found this community! I never knew that these old retro systems had people still developing for them, let alone pushing the boundaries of what these systems can do! I've been here for only a few days and I am already getting motivated to start working on stuff!
Some context...
I am, as of this post, a junior in college; Computer Science major. However, I don't consider myself all that great with programming or with Computer Science in general, which is a weird perdicament for me, considering my ambitions to work in Cyber Security as a career. I have had some experience with Java (I kind of lost it though), and I'm currently in the process of learning C for my coursework. Yet, I never really took to it as much as I should have - I really only did the assignments in class, and left it at that. A lack of ambition and retention has not been kind to me.
The general advice that I have received from all of my mentors when it comes to coding is to "find a reason to want to code; find projects that you want to work on, and keep your nose to the grindstone." Over the past few months, I have really gotten into learning about how online gaming works, how systems connect to each other, and how these companies run their services. After learning specifically about the Xband Modem from the 90s and projects like the DreamPi, I figured that any of these systems, including the PSX, could have some networking functionality. Although I don't intend to become a game developer for the PSX, or for any system for that matter, I would definitely like play around with the PSX, and try and have the know-how to make something like a PSX-like DreamPi a reality, but time will tell, and I have a looonnnnggg way to go before I have the skills to pull that off.
I have really enjoyed seeing the work that Lameguy64 and danhans42 have done; in particular the PSXNET project and the ESP8266 chip projects; definitely steps towards something bigger. I wish you guys the best of luck!
As for a place to start, I have taken it upon myself to download all of the resources here on the website (although I am having trouble getting psyq working on my Win10 64 bit machine; I'll save that for another post). Even though at the moment it's mostly Greek to me, I am excited to decipher it all. Along side my personal resources for learning code, I hope I can have some project, no matter how small, done within the year... that's my deadline!
It also helps that I used to collect PS1 some years ago, so I have a sizeable collection to do testing and what not. Unfortunately, all three of my PSXs have bit the dust, and I got no hardware at the moment, but I'm on the hunt for two replacements!
Anyway, I'm just happy to be here... I look forward to reading the forum every morning with my coffee! Cheers!