Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nigel Critten" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Sega announcement Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:16:33 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <7bscv1$l2g5@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <36e1221c.4769424@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <7bs2gg$e2k3@scea> <01be6817$a11691e0$0a3ddec2@sonia> NNTP-Posting-Host: gameware.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >> trying to make the Dreamcast more PC like... Sheeeesshhh.... ...SNIP.. The only part of Dreamcast provided by Microsoft is an Operating System.Windows CE, a heavily cut down version (with no GUI) re-written in assembler at that, this Operating System is provided to make it easy for PC games to be ported to & from the Dreamcast, Dreamcast has a second OS that most console developers will / are using (I know this for a fact) most developers loath CE and don't plan to use it. The video chipset inside the Dreamcast is part of a family of chips from Videologic, they are based around the same ideas but are not the same, the arcade version (in Namio) is faster than both the Dreamcast and PC version and the Dreamcast version is also faster than the PC version. The Dreamcast is built from the ground up same as all other consoles, the videochip isn't stuck on a PCI/AGP bus (both slow), it doesn't have to deal with legacy hardware like PCs do, it doesn't have to deal with backward compatibilty with 20 year old OS's and it certainly isn't a PC, it will benefit from games being ported to the Dreamcast from the PC. I'm looking forward to the release of both the Dreamcast and Playstation 2 in Europe. while the hardware of both is very exciting it's always a case of which has the best games, in my opinion the Nintendo 64 is winning on Quality titles... Nigel trying not to get involved in a flame war