Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Scott Cartier Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Is anyone still here???????? Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:46:52 -0800 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 40 Message-ID: <369FE17C.499D3B95@vmlabs.com> References: <77n0ob$hoo1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: vmlabs26.vmlabs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en While I can't speak for anyone else, I have never considered abandoning my Yaroze. I'm just having too much fun with it. I check the newsgroups every day, although I'm relatively shy about posting. I also update my web page every few days so I try to stay active. I would be interested in hearing the reasons why people stopped using their Yaroze. Unfortunately, those people aren't the ones reading this newsgroup :) I can't imagine people would quit just just because of the inactivity of others. If that *were* the case I would question why they got into the program in the first place. For the most part, you get out of it what you put in to it. I too check the SCEE site more frequently than SCEA; it is far more active. I would be interested in knowing the reason the SCEE scene hasn't died as much as SCEA. One SCEE bloke I've talked to has said it might be due to the member page layout. Ours is listed alphabetically, making it extremely tedious to find out what sites have been updated. You have to scroll down the whole list, looking at the date next to each entry. The SCEE site orders them according to when they were last updated. This means you can always find the freshest stuff very easily. It also creates a incentive to keep working so your site stays as far up the list as possible. As for the people at Sony, for the most part I'm pleased. The "people" support they give us is fabulous (Mario and James especially). It would have been even cooler, though, to get updated libraries every now and then. Especially for known bugs like the track skipping thing with the CD player. The icing on the cake would have been libraries to support the multi-tap and dual shock. But I assume any library coders at Sony are working on other more important things. What else can I say? I'm happy. I'll probably keep plunking away at the little black box even after Sony ceases official support. Scott http://www.concentric.net/~dsyaroze/insider