Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Majik Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: S*ga Dreamc*st Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 14:37:27 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 75 Message-ID: <35C86017.363C@127.0.0.1> References: <3569980E.51FC@saqnet.co.uk> <35C13D80.8B4BB88F@mail.datasys.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.202.250.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Its no use, I feel compelled to stick my oar in here.. lets start with the basics, I hate MS and I think Windows XXXX is rubbish.. but enough of the irrational hatred.. DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote: > > Windows CE in a games-console SUCK!! I agree, I certainly wont be having a dreamcast some one wrote something along the lines of: > WinCE is smaller than 95/NT and is therefore likely to be > more stable I'm sorry I think this is wrong, we (work) gto hold of one of those new Cassiopea thingies, with WinCE 2.0 (oooh the thrills), and within hours of being turned on we had it showing a nice little box complaining that an application had caused a memory fault etc... good old windows on the other hand, Ive never seen an App/ the OS crash on my Psion 3c, which has been running for 2 years now... some one else reckoned that: >WinCE is written from scratch... Now I really doubt it, but I dont know for sure... I just know the way MS works and also: >Win95 code base has reached critical mass ...bugs have gone unnoticed while this is certainly true, I bet a fair few bugs _do_ get noticed, just no one at MS dare fix them in case they cause even bigger bugs elsewhere. barney the dinosaur (alt.purple.dinosaur.die.die.die) Now I would really love to go work at the division of MS in charge of this (no, no stop laughing...) and put in an easter egg in the software.... I can just see it now "Mummy, Mummy, Barney told me to &$*£ right off you $%£% ^%%£$^£^" oooh the law suits would be great ;) anyway enough MS bashing, get back on topic. I can see the plus points of having the DirectX API on a console, and this was probably the deciding factor (that, and maybe the huge Bank of Gates cheque) I mean it would make porting a whole lot simpler (maybe) but I think a much simler API that maps directly onto the hardware would be a whole lot more useful, I bet to start with the DirectX API is used exclusively unitl about 12 months down the line developers get fed up of the Sega blue-screening, and being generally slow, and start to hit the hardware. anyway, hope I havent offended anyone.. except of course BG ttfn, Majik oh yes, for anyone thats interested there will be a new verison of PS-ZX out soon, and its a _little_ bit faster -- -- Majik - Owner/Curator of the Sinclair Microcomputer Museum -- Spod in a suitcase - ' Have Compiler, will travel ' -- http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~majik/ --