Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: NTSC/PAL start-up convention? Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:21:01 -0700 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 41 Message-ID: <36131F4D.BAF87D53@shell.jps.net> References: <3607F5AA.60709B48@shell.jps.net> <36081880.C9DA4042@bigfoot.com> <3608263F.7A3DD087@shell.jps.net> <36083423.FEFAE3D9@bigfoot.com> <3608C318.1C20B369@scee.sony.co.uk> <3608DEAC.DCE3007C@bigfoot.com> <3612DF9B.C9467AAD@ndirect.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: svalliap-isdn2.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) You know, I was thinking about this a while ago: it would be so great if we could set up interrupt callbacks and have a hi-res timer. I would love to set things up to run at a virtual like 300 frames/sec and have it aliased to 60/50 frames a second. Functions would be required to unsort the sorted GPU commands, though. But, the overall effect would make it pretty easy to bridge the cross-platform differences. Random thoughts, - e! Alex Herbert wrote: > > Darco wrote: > > > > > > > o You'd have to do some reverse engineering. Read your license agreement. > > > > > > > Yeah, that's what I thought. Doing this though would require me to > > obtain several playstation roms and compare the differences between > > them. However, this would be a copyright violation before it ever became > > a reverse engineering issue. It probably wouldn't be worth it anyway... > > It was a good idea though. > > > > 'Darco > > And what about future ROM revisions? > > Here's my thinking. The PSX must knows whether it's a PAL or NTSC machine, as it has to boot in the > correct mode. So, either the ROMs are different, or the boot code detects something in the hardware. > Oops, back to reverse engineering again. > > Herbs -- Mata ne, ... ... - e! ::' tenchi@shell.jps.net ':: (Protocol) :: ACiD -/- ACS -/- pHluid -/- Yaroze :: (Tenchikun) ::. http://www.jps.net/tenchi .:: ''' '''