New fscaler release!

[billb]

In these times of PS3 Linux projects being canceled and users moving on after Sony's decision to drop OtherOS support, it's good to see that some things continue to move forward. I received a new release of the fscaler tool (used to "zoom in" on the screen with help from the Cell's SPEs) from the developer and have the source, RPM install package, and source RPM available here:

http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/bodeg ... 3920#p3920

It's not in the ps3bodega repo yet so for now you can download/install from the above linked post.

[Iguana]

Sweet XD I'll give it at try later this week..

p.s. when you scale an image, is it the same method as it was before??

http://www.displayofpatience.net/2009/07/emulator-games-ps3-linux-scaler/

1. Start the emulator just as usual and load up the game you want to play
2. Open terminal and start the scaler: “scaler -t 10000 -s 2″
3. -> The display should now be scaled in the middle of the screen
4. Press alt-tab to switch to the emulator game
5. Use alt-mousedrag to center the window so you can see the whole screen.
6. Play
7. When finished, alt-tab change back to terminal and ctrl-c to kill the scaler process

[billb]

p.s. when you scale an image, is it the same method as it was before??

No, those instructions are for the original version of the scaler tool. This one has different command line options (as described in the linked post and README), but you can basically operate it the same way.

The scalergui tool doesn't have support for the new features at this time, but I believe it should still work OK with that.

[Iguana]

Sweet XD I'll give it at try later this week..

Probably not this week, maybe in a few months, but it would be interesting to test out..

[billb]

Here's a screenshot of spu-top showing fscaler using all 6 available SPE's ...

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fscaler using 6 SPEs

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[billb]

Updated to 1.1 now:

http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/bodeg ... 3955#p3955