Get Known PlayStation History
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The first conceptions of the PlayStation date back to 1986. Nintendo had been attempting to work with disc technology since the Famicom, but the medium had problems. Its rewritable magnetic nature could be easily erased (thus leading to a lack of durability), and the discs were a copyright infringement danger. Consequently, when details of CDROM/XA (an extension of the CD-ROM format that combines compressed audio, visual and computer data, allowing all to be accessed simultaneously) came out, Nintendo was interested. CD-ROM/XA was being simultaneously developed by Sony and Philips. Nintendo approached Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on, tentatively titled the “SNES-CD”. A contract was signed, and work began. 
Nintendo’s choice of Sony was due to a prior dealing: Ken Kutaragi, the person who would later be dubbed “The Father of PlayStation”, was the individual who had sold Nintendo on using the Sony SPC-700 processor for use as the eight-channel ADPCM sound synthesis set in the Super Famicom/SNES console through an impressive demonstration of the processor’s capabilities. Read more
PCSX, a Free Playstation emulator for Linux KUBUNTU
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PCSX is an advanced PlayStation (PSX) emulator, which uses a plugin architecture to provide full support for all components of the PSX. It has full emulation support for gamepads, videos, sound, memory cards, and other important PSX components, and is able to play many games without problems.
This package provides the main PCSX-df binary, library, and support files.
160GB PlayStation 3 on the way to America
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Great News Blog - The console will come together with a Dual-Shock SIXAXIS and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. It is expected to be available in November at $499 and the 80GB “Core Pack” announced at E3 will go for $399.
The U.S version will offers a voucher for the PS Network game PAIN while the Euro 160GB includes €70($103) of free “downloadable content” vouchers.
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