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From: rs108@mdx.ac.uk (Robert Swan)
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Subject: Re: Sony's grand experiment?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:13:49 GMT
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:49:27 +0000, Alex Herbert
<aherbert@ndirect.co.uk> wrote:

>Full Pro Dev Kit.  Every one of us would love to get our hands on it.
>Even better if we could buy it on the high-street.  What are you scared of
>Sony?  I know I'm just dreaming, but it is possible for Sony to protect
>themselves in the same way as they have done with the Yaroze.

I dont know. Maybe im in a minority here (I usually am) but couldnt
care less about the full dev kit. For a variety of reasons I think I
wouldnt benefit, and others wouldnt particularly either.

1) if anyone complains about the difference in power and speed between
yarozes + full libs my initial opinion is to tell them to shut up. On
the scee site there are probably only a handful of demos that could
use the extra speed. And I dont include my games in them. When we all
start pushing the yaroze to the limit then maybe there could possibly
be justification in asking for the full libs :)

2) burning our own cds. My personal opinion is why bother? To give
demos to friends? to sell? Great, now I can burn 100s of cds, and give
them away, and now i can not get any appreciation from another 100
people! but are you asking for a cd burner to be included with the
yaroze package? If so, the price goes up dramatically, and less people
buy it. If not, those with less money feel like they are getting a raw
deal after having already spent a fair bit of money. 

what I think we do miss out on is in the smaller things - lack of
multitap support etc.etc. (personally i dont even rate loss of cd
loading as a problem, there are easy workarounds for many things)

I dont agree that giving people on here who are just as (and maybe
more) talented than proff. games programmers would let us compete. We
can't as ultimately we do it on the side and on our owns. The way to
create professional looking games is to work in a close, communicative
group. And thats down to us :)

Robert Swan
rs108
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middex2