July 22, 2005

Thanks to a little app called Portable VNC for the PSP, you can now remote desktop into your Mac from your PSP. So.... for me, just playing with the OS is not that much fun [yes it is cool, but games are better :) ]. Let's see what it is like to play W.o.W.

MMM..... well you can't :) It is way too slow at about 1 - 1/2 fps. You really can't do anything. I first tried walking around one of the big towns, but with the low frame rate, by the time I stopped moving, I was nowhere near the place I wanted to be. So I was thinking I could use it to farm the auction house. But again, it was just to cumbersome. After much thought, I could only think of ONE use: if I was waiting to get into an instance and wanted to chill out in my living room instead of at my computer, I could glance at my PSP to see when it was time to go and play.

A little video to show the fps one the PSP
http://macovermatter.com/archives/MVI_5056_sm2.AVI

By now, some of you might be asking how well does this work with the OS? Well, not bad—besides the fact you can't see your mouse :). Other than that, you can see and play with the OS just fine.

What you will need to do this:

A PSP with firmware 1.5 ( not 1.5.1 and 1.5.2)
portablevnc On the PSP
A Mac running OSXvnc

How to:
1. Install portablevnc on the PSP. It is very simple to do. Just follow the instructions.
2. Open up OSXvnc.app and give your Mac a name and a password. Then hit start.

Yeah, that is about it!! The only thing that was a little out of the ordinary was on my PSP, I had to set the network setting by hand. PortableVNC does not work well with DHCP.

Posted by macomadmin at 05:57 PM | Comments (0)