Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: jmhannan@cix.co.uk (Jeff Hannan) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Can't we all just get along? Date: 15 Sep 1998 22:00:21 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <35FD9187.2DF54CC1@sinclair.net> Reply-To: jmhannan@cix.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dyna23-12.compulink.co.uk In article <35FD9187.2DF54CC1@sinclair.net>, dreamer@sinclair.net (Joshua Meeds) wrote: > Uh...huh? I don't get that about a communal television...neither can > consoles. Both can hook up to televisions, however. Most people I know with consoles have them in the main lounge, hooked up to the communal TV. I suppose you could have a device coming off a PC in another room which has joypads and a TV connection. I haven't seen it yet, but it doesn't seem to me to be a difficult thing to construct. Its still somewhat cumbersome though. >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. Not that kind of multitasking, I mean running more than one program. >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. Then the game obviously isn't stretching the limits of your machine. Yet someone who bought a PC three months before you wouldn't be able to run the game at all. The PC, at this moment in time, looks good. But only because the Playstation technology is old and Nintendo's stubbornness has stunted the success of its own superb machine. The PC is great if you have the disposable income and the know how. Jeff