Watch PS3 run Starcraft (with help from Linux & Windows)

With the PS3's ability to allow you to install your own OS, tech junkies have been tinkering with the console's potential since its launch a few Novembers back. There is one thing we haven't seen yet, though -- and that's a PS3 running Starcraft!

Accomplished through the use of Windows 95, with Qemu and Yellow Dog Linux, you too can can crush Zerg scum with the Protoss on your PS3. (Just don't think you're going to get Crysis to run on the thing.) Linux and Qemu really hog the Cell processor, so a low-end game like Starcraft is as stable as it gets. Zerg rush past the break to watch the video.

[Thanks, Evan!]

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Watch PS3 run Starcraft (with help from Linux & Windows) originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.