Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Russell Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: Direct Hardware Access? Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 13:44:56 +1300 Organization: Peace Computers NZ Ltd Lines: 23 Message-ID: <345D1E88.ABD@peace.co.nz> References: <345B83BB.404E@xmission.com> <01bce7b8$3712a9e0$6ebf43ce@wkwerner> <345CE265.1F51@xmission.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: intro.peace.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Mikel wrote: > > > Sony says no. Direct access is for the Professional Developers. > > Yaroze is a hobbyist console and the NY library is the supplied > > interface to the hardware > > Thats odd.. I would assume the opposite would be true, that they > would stick the hobbyist developers with just a faq of the hardware, and > say "good luck", and would give all the fancy libraries to the > blue-boys.. Frankly, I would enjoy the first option much more.. Well, same here, but I guess their reasoning is that if they released the information two things would happen: We'd all write dodgy non standard code which won't run on future versions of the Playstation (or Playstation BIOS). They would get inundated with questions, and they haven't exactly got heaps of time to answer. -- ==PEACE COMPUTERS ==James.Russell@peace.co.nz - 64(9)3730400 -Fax 64(9)3730401 The penalty for bigamy is having two mothers-in-law.