Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "J. Pretorius" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Is anyone still here???????? Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:40:52 -0800 Organization: @Home Network Lines: 46 Message-ID: <36A55044.96F02456@home.net> References: <77n0ob$hoo1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs207965-a.gvmt1.bc.wave.home.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-AtHome0402 (Win95; U) Nathan Miller wrote: > > To all SCEA members and staff, > > ... > > It is sad that I am a member of SCEA, but I would rather check the SCEE > stuff because I know that the SCEA site will have less updates. The SCEA > community needs to pull together and get working on some games. We all > invested quite a bit of money in that little black box, it is a shame that > we would pass up such a good programming platform because we don't feel like > programming for it or because it can't produce the level of graphics that > our 3d accelerated cards can. The Yaroze has one of the best support > libraries that we could ever ask for, it is straight forward and not bogged > down like the DirectX libs. > > ... Hi Nathan, I also love the playstation libraries. The people who developed them deserve a lot of praise. Nothing compares to programming a dedicated piece of hardware that was designed well. I think a lot of people do program their Yaroze, but it takes a lot of time to go from demos to writing programs that people can interact with. It took me about 100 hours to write a fractal landscape generator for the Yaroze, but I didn't want to spend another 100 hours putting a user interface in it, and polishing it up so that other people could use it. Anyway, here is a game (Opera of Destruction) that was JUST released here in North America. This is the NTSC version - there is no PAL version at the moment! The zip is around 800K, but the game uses every available ounce of the Playstation's memory. Hopefully this game will make you feel better about the state of affairs at SCEA. http://members.home.net/jpretori/opera.zip (see http://members.home.net/jpretori/betafx.html for some out of date screen shots) The game will also hopefully appear in the showcase section of the U.S. site shortly. James Pretorius jpretori@home.com