First a bit of background? Yeah. I havea gamecube. We hardly use it. To be honest gamecube games suck. But. I play guild wars, and some of my computers aren't good enough to run it. So. I was thinking. Might as well put the gamecube to good use. Well. I checked out he gamecube specs, and I guess they weren't bad.So. Is it possible, to hook up the gamecube to a pc. And use it as extra resources? Like use the powerpc processor, and/or/at least use the graphics card thingy hatever you call it in a cube? If I have to hook it up with a scuzzy or something, that's fine, I'm familiar with hardware of the pc. Is it possible to se a qoob or viper gc or whatever? And do that. Can someone write software for this? me no no. But I think it would be awesome that when they become outdated by the next gen, their still useful as a pc booster (hint: we do not upgrade our pc's often... my dad still has a windows 98 o.0)(okay fine, I admit, he can't get rid of it because he uses it as a security measure for a program he distributes...)
You have to lot of work hooking GC to PC as extra resources, it might be easyer to convert GC to computer, and actually it is under development, called as GC Linux. And everything on GC is integrated, CPU, RAM, Graphics processor, so you would have to desolder all off, and figure out pin orders etc. and do something converter to connect in computer. And about specs, 128bit 485MHz CPU (well, you would have to make 128bit operating system) 24MB RAM (quite poor extra memory, no use) Graphics processor (you would have to so much soldering and desoldering and placing components to own board to fit PC) Better to stick with normal PC components...
I have a better option: compile a Linux Kernel with the OpenMosix patch for the gamecube. And do the same with one of your mac in your house (yeah that mean your mean will be running linux too). Connect the two on the network and you will have a mini cluster of powerPC (2 nodes)!. You should be able to use the gamecube processing power and RAM while running processes on your mac! (cool isn't it?) Otherwise ... just give it to me if you don't want it :-D Alystan
macs are gay... would that actualy work? I don't want it to function as a seperate machine, but like, a computing slave, but then I wonder, how would I get a driver for that? I don't no any programminglanguages cept php... and you can't write drivers with that... so, it's possible to network the gamecube to a pc? after that I think it would be easy, after you get linux on it. I talk to much. hmmm would it be possible for someone to homebrew a "game" where it has an os for the gamecube? Wasn't their a linux that boot from a cd? wouldn't you have to change the gc bios though? me no know... But even after you get linux, how do you make it crunch numbers for windows? anyone know of any thirdparty programs?
Your gamecube will not crunch any number for a Windows machine without you writing the full software for it. But What I talked about with a mac is possible (at least in theory) since mac are powerPC based (and so is the gamecube) runnning both on a linux kernel patched with openMosix (or something similar) would enable processes to migrate from the mac to the gamecube. But, unless you are a linux master with a lot of time to spare on a useless project. I don't think you would be doing it. Alystan
