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From: Manny Najera <mnajera@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Net Yaroze for the PlayStation 2?
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 18:24:10 -0500
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>                 Do you feel like that there will be a "Net Yaroze 2"
> when the PSX2 comes out in 1999-2000? For my part, I would like it to
> come out early and offer us the NY2 before or when the consumer PSX2
> comes out. That way, it would be possible to develop games that are
> very competitive to what the market offers at that point in time.
> Furthermore, it would give us more time to become developpers if we
> wished and possibly create commercial games. Don't worry, I'm very
> happy with my Net Yaroze, but I would have liked it even more if it
> could have been available in September 1995 :)

That would probably be the coolest thing a large company like Sony ever
did.

>         Anyway, I think I'm just dreaming of having a Net Yaroze with
> 16 or 32 megs of unified ram, a R5000 at 200Mhz, DVD, lod mip-mapping,
>
> Anti-aliasing, alpha blending, per-pixel fog and transparency,
> tri-linear filtering and perspective correction. Could also render 2
> million polygons/sec with all features on. Did I miss anything? :)
>         Share your thoughts if you want!

Could you imagine the type of CG intros we'd see with DVD?  The
background music for games would no longer stop at 5 minutes...

What about a modem?  You know Sony would provide a communication library
that would make programming online games as easy as interfacing with the
pads.

> P.S: I almost forgot, a trade-in offer for Net Yaroze members would be
>
> cool!

Umm... I don't think that Sony would really "want" all their machines
back.  I'll keep my Yaroze for a long, long time.