Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Joshua Meeds Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Can't we all just get along? Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:58:31 +0000 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 40 Message-ID: <35FD9187.2DF54CC1@sinclair.net> References: <35FA8868.B953699@sinclair.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dreamer.sincom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Jeff Hannan wrote: > But the PC is designed, physically, for people to do work on. It can't > double up as a communal television. Also, it is designed now for > multitasking, which is incompatible with game playing. Uh...huh? I don't get that about a communal television...neither can consoles. Both can hook up to televisions, however. And multitasking incompatible with game playing?!! How many times have you wished you could write your game to truly be doing 2 things at once? More than 2? In fact, game consoles have been multitasking for years now. You send a graphics processor command, and while waiting for it to draw, you can send the sound processor a command, and then do some core engine code waiting for both graphics and sound to start. And for the end user, Multitasking is useful, too - I have, in the past, been playing a game on PC while downloading a web page about the game at the same time. Believe it or not, modern computers are mainly sold as game machines - albeit expensive ones. Today games are the #1 selling apps for computers, selling far more than anything else, except the operating systems themselves. Yes, they can do far more, and can be upgraded, that is why they cost so much. Pc's definitely have their place in the game world, as do consoles. Personally, I'll take both. You won't find Might and Magic VI, Ultima IX, or Everquest on Console (though Everquest on Dreamcast would be a cool move, don't you think), and you won't find Castlevania, Metal Gear, FFVII (oh, wait... :) on PC. -- - Joshua Meeds Dreamwriter Dragon dreamer@sinclair.net -=UDIC=- _____________________________________ We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of the dreams - Willy Wonka quoting Arthur O'Shaughnessy