Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Brian Baird Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Saturn BASIC? Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:11:35 +0100 Organization: DMA Design Ltd Lines: 18 Message-ID: <356A7937.719A@dma-design.com> References: <3569987C.13CB@saqnet.co.uk> Reply-To: brian@dma-design.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.153.133.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Nick Ferguson wrote: > > Whilst daydreaming about Dreamcast I had this thought: > > Isn't there a Saturn equivalent of Yaroze called the Sega Saturn BASIC > or something? I have a feeling there is, but it never made it outside of > Japan. Does anyone know anything about this? Or did I dream it? It's nowhere near the quality of the Yaroze. It's available in Japan but was hardly a 'major' launch. Apparently produces '16 bit' style games... I don't think it was really a Yaroze equivalent, more continuing a Japanese tradition - previous platforms like the NES, SNES, etc all had BASIC style development kits for the home. -- Brian @ DMA [ All opinions & views are my own, not DMA's, yadda, yadda, yadda ]