> A friend of mine once tried to read a PSX disc on his computer.
> Out of curiosity, he tried to copy one of the files.
>
> It copied.
>
> Unfortunatly, there was a catch.. the transfer was PAINFULLY slow.
> A few bytes per second. I guess that he could select one of the smaller
> files in the disc for copy, start the copy and go to sleep.
That would probably be more down to the drive - PSX CDs are, after all,
black. This drive (a 40x TEAC I think) read the disks at around 16-20x
judging by the whistle.
> Am I correct to assume that Sony used standard industry computer
> arctitecture on the PSX?
Welll... The processor's not exactly standard I don't think, and most of
the internals are pretty nifty so I guess that they're nothing like any
standard architecture at the time the thing was designed. But the only
detailed fiddling I've done is with the disc - it uses a DOS-like filesystem
because the development environment is DOS/Win based I think.
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