Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: GUI and Widget Library Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:05:00 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <381b57ac.260948914@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <7r7g5j$23b12@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <37d7e9eb.767868262@news.scea.sony.com> <38084b40.1391612873@news.playstation.co.uk> <1e0cfcl.bgsc2x1asr8qcN@a1-88-132.a1.nl> <38177b5a.204546271@news.playstation.co.uk> <1e0dpfs.19gvvkyjya8i8N@a1-88-110.a1.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:1485 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:4997 The fish you watch, and they do their own thing (kinda like a "soothing" experience, like a real bowl would be)... How about something like a tamagochi? Where you have to take responsibility over your little creature! That shouldn't be too hard to program. Steven On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:50:01 +0200, debri@dds.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) wrote: >Steven Osman wrote: > >> Well, did I forget to mention that the playstation is only a >> reasonably functional computer... >> >> Remember, there's no built in RTC (realtime clock)... that means, each >> time you power it up, you have to set the clock again... >> >> You're definitely thinking along what I was suggesting though... >> >> Are there any fish-bowl PSX programs yet? >> >> I understand some computer software versions are being SOLD, why not >> PSX fishbowls? After all, that'd be a much bigger bowl than a >> computer one! (generally, people have bigger TV's than monitors). >> >> Steven > > >I understand that you would have to set the time every time again. But >it could be fun to make a clock with a different effect every 15 minutes >or so. This is just for fun and if you want to leave your TV on to see >the effects. > >The fishbole is cool idea. You could leave out the clock-ellement and >give an effect every 15 minutes, like one fish eats another, a fish >explodes, etc.. >The longer you leave your NY on, the more effects you will see and the >further you get, the more spectaculair the effects get. I sure would >want to see as much effects as possible and leave my system on for a >longer time. > >DEnnis..