Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Re: low-level GTE and GPU Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:19:05 GMT Organization: SN Systems Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5pdd9e$8c1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <33AFFD9B.5545@eecs.tulane.edu> <33b06d76.180761@205.149.189.29> <33B085CE.5421@eecs.tulane.edu> <01bc8673$c98aa940$5271df26@disintegration> <33B9B6BB.581A@eecs.tulane.edu> Reply-To: gil@snsys.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gil.snsys.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 "J.J. Hoesing" wrote: > I agree totally. There doesn't need to be any official support for low >level stuff at all. The Amiga would have sucked it everyone just used >the libraries that came with the system, it was people who coded 'on the >bare metal' who made it interesting. I think the same applies here. We >just need something basic to go on, and let us explore the >possibilities. If they provided the detailed information, even with a huge disclaimer and no contact details, people would still send them questions about it, which would have to be fended off with a polite response just for PR's sake. (Although then again, this is Sony we're talking about.) Also, people might start to demand the full library updates, which come out every quarter with a mass of documentation and new fun stuff. Sony might be figuring that (as with e.g. the BBC Micro and the Advanced User Guide) if people want to know the complicated stuff, they'll take one of the things apart and figure it out. As you say, you're supposed to be the hobbyists with the time on your hands to work out what hasn't been given to you ;=) Also, believe me, the low-level stuff is complicated in a particularly complicated kinda way. A lot of pros have trouble with it, and it's supposed to be their job to memorise and understand all the docs for GTE and so forth. Or that's what they tell us anyway :=) Gil Jaysmith SN Systems Software Ltd, makers of Psy-Q... http://www.snsys.com Disclaimer: What I say when I post here represents me, not my employers.