Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: dave@lunar1.demon.co.uk (David Wagner) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: PS2 Pictures Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 22:55:01 -0000 Organization: Zygote Commando Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <7bitsm$9he10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <01be65c9$b92082a0$0a3ddec2@sonia> <36E04ED2.11CC3332@datasys.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lunar1.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 In article <36E04ED2.11CC3332@datasys.net>, rquat@datasys.net wrote... > David Wagner wrote: > > > > This throw-it-away-and-start-again attitude in the computer/console > > industry is quite amazing though. You would have thought someone might > > have spotted the benefits of backward compatibility a while ago. > > > > Lets not forget that the whole issue of backwards compatability is what > has been slowing the protential of the PC industry for some time now... Thats true. And I often moan about that myself. I guess I'm just hard to please :) Still, Apple were reasonably successful in changing architectures and still providing pretty good backward compatibility when they switched to the PowerPC. > > Of course, I'd love to play Final Fantasy 1 again..... *sigh* ;) > > 'Darco > Well you could always go grab an emulator for it, if you can live with your conscience afterwards :) bye... Dave [Wondering if someone should release a Pentium 3 emulator for the Playstation 2 since it appears to be more powerful ;) ]