Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Mark Green Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: PSX2!!!!!!!!!! Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:55:04 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <37E755F8.F0D342CE@reading.ac.uk> References: <37DE9588.D78D019B@which.net> <861zbujqt9.fsf@foo.mel.cybec.com.au> <37E5EEC1.2E841B28@easynet.co.uk> <7s5to2$731@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ssfmse3.rdg.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Nigel Critten wrote: > OK cancel NY2 and give us decent manuals, access to the whole system, dual > shock and multitap support, some decent tools, and then we might get > somewhere. and better access to the console not just serial, my old c64 > loads from tape quicker than I can load one of my games into the Yaroze > through the serial port. When debugging this is a pain you can spend hours > trying to find a simple bug that would take a few minutes if you could > upload the game quicker. > I've produced games on other systems with little problem, but the Yaroze > libraries are horrible, the manuals are a joke. The manuals are pretty bad, but I think the *libraries* are pretty good - compared to a lot of other game library sets I've seen, anyway. (I spent ages getting a DirectX SDK from the States, only to discover how hideous it is - the only 2D function it provides is raw bitmap write! Even their 2D demo uses an inline assembler subroutine to draw the bitmap in a memory space for writing..) > Don't get me wrong, I like the whole idea of the Yaroze otherwise why would > I be here. I just expected a much more open system. It *is* pretty open as it stands. Although leaving out the multitap support seemed a distinct bit weird. > If making a decent game is a criteria for getting access to a PS2 then there > are very few developers in the professional market that would get access > either. Hmm, I doubt that. Now, if it was making a decent *and original* game..