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Bios Question

Posted: October 16th, 2016, 8:03 am
by ellison
I can't find any information about the BIOS, really. I just want to know if it is *nix related. I guess we'll find out in 2038.

Re: Bios Question

Posted: October 16th, 2016, 11:52 am
by Shadow
It's written in MIPS assembler directly for the R3000A with some optimised high level code to fit in 512 KB of ROM.

Re: Bios Question

Posted: October 16th, 2016, 2:30 pm
by ellison
Thanks, Shadow. Can you point me in the right direction for some more reading material on the BIOS?

Re: Bios Question

Posted: October 16th, 2016, 2:38 pm
by Shadow
ellison wrote:Thanks, Shadow. Can you point me in the right direction for some more reading material on the BIOS?
What reading material exactly? The BIOS isn't open source. The only material available is anything Google has indexed from crackers and hackers messing with the BIOS via disassembly.

Re: Bios Question

Posted: October 16th, 2016, 2:51 pm
by ellison
Seems that way. I was just fishing for more leads on my BIOS retexture fantasy.

Re: Bios Question

Posted: October 16th, 2016, 6:12 pm
by Shadow
A friend of mine did that ages ago: http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=55