Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Sony PDA Dev/Library upgrades Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 00:55:20 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 53 Message-ID: <35C29FB8.981DEB38@mail.datasys.net> References: <35C14295.8D5EF12A@mail.datasys.net> <35C17CD3.7D29@mdx.ac.uk> <6ps0fu$fvf7@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <35C23F17.7A5977D9@mail.datasys.net> <35C29C2D.988F8377@sinclair.net> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-9.r1.ncbldw.InfoAve.Net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:1583 scea.yaroze.freetalk:847 Joshua Meeds wrote: > OK, a real idea: make a role-playing game, concentrate all the Psx's > graphics and memory on one part, to make that part real cool, and do the > rest on the PDA. As an example, if you wanted the world to be as real > as possible and the storyline parts really cool, you could do those on > the Psx, using the PDA for the fights. Or vice/versa. Sounds intresting - But seems too dependant on the PDA unit. But if the PDA unit were bunbled with such a game then the dependence wouldn't be a problem. This idea could be expanded though... Could you explain a little bit more? > More weirdness: The PDA's would allow a type of game that couldn't be > done on Psx before: Battleship! You place all your ships on the PDA, so > the other guy can't see, then duke it out! Whoah... Cool! I never thought of that. Not sure how well the screen resolution can handle something like that, but that's an intresting idea... Another idea that I got: Not really an Idea, but a modification of an idea: With the tamagachi idea thing. You could use the IR link to "mate" two creatures to come up with a new creature. If you did set up a system like this, then most likely then you would have a system set up where you could have more than one creature on a PDA at a time. There's got to be more uses for the PDA... Tetris would probably port well to the PDA, as well as several popular card games. (Poker, blackjack, etc...) The remote control thing was an intresting idea that I wouldn't mind looking further into - for once we could create the ULTIMATE universal remote control! Have one remote to do your sterio, TV, VCR, or whatever... We could program it to automaticly turn on or turn of the TV, or do something more useful - like program when you want the VCR to turn on and start recording and on what channel... An easy-to-program VCR!!! Just program the times on the playstation, send it to the PDA, and leave the pda in the room pointed at the VCR... Neat, eh? -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com (Replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me) UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion" --- L. Ron Hubbard, Reader's Digest, May 1980, p.1