Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: philg Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Sony's grand experiment? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:28:07 +0100 Organization: philg@easynet.co.uk Lines: 50 Message-ID: <35829A83.A5D32AD2@easynet.co.uk> References: <357EECC1.97053769@jps.net> <358018A7.26DDE8E0@ndirect.co.uk> <35815177.1061924@www.netyaroze-europe.com> Reply-To: philg@easynet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: philg.easynet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:1163 scea.yaroze.freetalk:728 Robert Swan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:49:27 +0000, Alex Herbert > 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. I agree. The license prevents people from distributing Yaroze games commercially anyway, so there's not much point in being able to burn CDs or having the pro development kit. 10 Reasons why the Yaroze is the ZX Spectrum for the 90s: 1) It's black 2) It hooks up to your TV set. 3) It has an awkward way of transferring data to it. 4) It's quite straightforward to code for (well, for simple sprite based stuff anyway) 5) It's pretty cheap (the Spectrum was £125 in 1982, which must be the equivalent to £349 in today's money) 6) Bedroom coders are producing some great stuff with it. 7) It's getting people jobs in the games industry. 8) But most people are just using it to play commercial games on. --anyone want to add two more to this to make 10?! 10 Reasons why the Yaroze *isn't* the ZX Spectrum for the 90s: 1) It doesn't have rubber keys. 2) It doesn't overheat and melt. 3) You can't buy it in Dixons. 4) You can't sell your games. 5) There's no third party books or documentation (other than from other members) 6) There's no magazines devoted to it (No 'Your Sinclair' or 'Sinclair User') --anyone want to add 4 more to this to make 10?! Phil