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From: "Charles Nicholson" <chnicholson@vassar.edu>
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Subject: Re: Is anyone still here????????
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:06:19 -0500
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Hoo.  Well done.  I'm impressed.... is that a height map?  It looks like a
grid of points on x-z plane with modified y's to generate the landscape... i
was thinking of doing something like that myself, but i'm still hacking out
the whole dynamic tmd thing.. :)  It kinda reminds me of that old TR game
Terminal Velocity, but with more stuff (i love blowing up cities....)

at any rate, props... That'll show those SCEEers.... :):)

-charles

>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(see http://members.home.net/jpretori/betafx.html for some out of date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