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From: "Rad" <rad@cyberdude.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: yaroze 2 ?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:39:59 -0000
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George Bain wrote in message <7cignk$fu94@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
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>Hi there,
>
>Remember that a Net Yaroze cost £229 and a pro kit almost £10,000.
>You get what you pay for....


Yeah but most of that £10,000 is for the license to develop games
commercially.
The jump from £229 to £10,000 isn't just because you get the full dev
software.
And anyway, for the THIRD time my point was:

WHEN NOBODY is developing for the PlayStation commercially anymore and the
development tools and documentation for the PlayStation are just sitting in
some archive at Sony rotting away, then MAYBE Sony could release them to the
Net Yaroze community.

By this time the prodev kit won't be worth £10,000.
Here's and example, in monetry value how much was the quake source code
worth when Quake was first released? How much will it be worth when id
publically release the source code?

>P.S.  I still have not seen one single Net Yaroze game/demo that uses
>      the Net Yaroze libraries to their fullest.


Thats true and it's exactly why I said that I wasn't too bothered. Don't get
me wrong I'm very happy with the Net Yaroze, but adding more features to it
never hurt anybody.

The reason I even mentioned any of this, is the nice thought of maybe one
day being able to add full use of the dual shock pad, or 4 player action
with a multi-tap or maybe a linkup option to your existing yaroze games, not
that I'd even use any of these apart from the dual shock pad, but some
people might want to.

But don't worry I'm not holding my breath, obviously commercial development
for the PlayStation won't stop tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or
maybe even next year, but one day it will, and when that day comes
professional developers will have little use of the devkit.

Rad.
rad@cyberdude.com
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx


>George
>
>
>
>In article <7chbi0$fu93@chuka.playstation.co.uk>, rad@cyberdude.com says...
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>>To be honest I can't see why the Net Yaroze dev kit is crippled anyway =
>>and that only "selective" information is available, but then I'm not =
>>really that bothered since I'm happy with it.
>
>>Take care,
>>
>>Rad.
>>rad@cyberdude.com