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From: "Steve Tolin" <BitSlap_Software@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: FGN Online
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:35:39 -0400
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I was pretty excited about this announcement as well....
This is not made up....   It is also on Standford's website..

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/lect05.html

Seems legit...

I will start a new thread to show support for the Net Yaroze 2 project.
Please add your comments to the thread and hopefully we can help make Sony's
decision.

Steve Tolin

Scott Cartier <scartier@vmlabs.com> wrote in message
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> From FGN Online this morning.  Note the last sentence:
>
>    New PSX2 Info?
>
>    PlayStation: According to the Gaming Intelligence
>    Agency, Phil Harrison, vice president of third-party
>    relations and research and development for SCEA,
>    recently visited Stanford University to demo the next
>    generation PlayStation for a group of electrical
>    engineering students. Harrison informed that the
>    machine already had "two of three components
>    necessary for DVD playback. A DVD drive and an
>    MPEG-2 decoder." The third component was a
>    "software interface," which Sony is working on but
>    has not announced and will not be announced for a
>    while. He then confirmed PlayStation 2 will support
>    an "enhanced memory card, as well as additional
>    media options." Harrison also said that Sony was
>    "strongly considering" extending the Yaroze program
>    to its new machine.
>
> While recently I have been doubting FGN Online's journalistic integrity,
> this still gives us hope.
>
> Scott