Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rad" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: playstation 2 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:53:39 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <7brc1i$l2g4@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <36d93950.632204@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <7bjti8$9he16@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <01b9e9b2$194e1f40$655c38d4@gareth> <7bn4jl$9he34@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36e120ca.4431920@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vil-30.village.gre.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Four times faster you say! Hmmm [picturing my fire demo running at full frame rate] Rad. rad@cyberdude.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx Barry & Robert Swan wrote in message <36e120ca.4431920@www.netyaroze-europe.com>... >If you check, the backwards compatibility is enabled by a standalone >chip that copies the PS cpu. This means that _if_ yo ucould connect to >it in the standard way, then you would not gain any extras from the >new PS2 chips, meaning the only difference between a yaroze and using >a ps2 as a yaroze would be the option to run your games at up to 4 >times the speed. No graphics enhancement, no extra memory, nothing. > >So please don't get too excited. >