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psx.wiki documents the original Sony PlayStation: its hardware, system software, development kits, file formats, games and history.
Hardware
- System Architecture
- CPU: Instruction Set · COP0
- Memory Map · I/O Map · Memory Control
- Interrupts · DMA · Root Counters
- GPU: GP0 Drawing · GP0 Environment · GP0 Transfer · GP1 · GPUSTAT · VRAM · Rendering · Texture Cache · Video Timing
- GTE: Registers · Commands
- MDEC
- SPU: Registers · ADPCM · ADSR · Reverb
- CD-ROM: Registers · Commands · XA Audio · Disc Format
- Controller: Protocol
- Memory Card
- Serial Interfaces · Expansion Port
System Software
- BIOS: Boot · A Functions · B Functions · C Functions · Syscalls · Events · Threads · File I/O
- PS-X OS
- PS-X EXE · SYSTEM.CNF
SDKs
Psy-Q
Psy-Q tools and Sony's run-time library:
- System: libapi · libc · libmath · libetc
- Graphics: libgpu · libgte · libgs · libhmd
- CD-ROM and movies: libcd · libds · libpress
- Sound: libspu · libsnd
- Controllers and serial: libpad · libsio · libcomb
- Memory Card: libcard · libmcrd · libmcx · mcgui
File Formats
- Graphics: TIM · TMD · PMD · HMD · RSD · TOD
- Sprite editor: SDF · PXL · CLT · ANM · TSQ · CEL · BGD
- Movies and streaming: STR · BS · XA · DA
- Sound: VAB · VAG · SEQ · SEP
- Memory Card: FAT
- Programs: PS-X EXE · SYSTEM.CNF