Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Paul Holman Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: yahoo Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:52:59 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: <39F40A7B.EFC516B0@scee.net> References: <8siacj$9b2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <8skpk7$9pb1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <8skun4$9pb2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <85itqp3dlj.fsf@foo.mel.vet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jpage.wav.scee.sony.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win98; I) To: "Prof. Frink" Well, the product that we're releasing is aimed at the "mass market" - so BASIC seemed a good place to start, the guys here extended yabasic to add support for gouraud-shaded triangles and read a PS2 controller for example. However (sorry!) we cut out syntax that might allow access to the hardware (at least in the first rev.) It is pretty powerful though ... better than BBC Micros :-) (Actually better than P3 based PC's in a lot of code, despite not much use of VUs). Its pretty nice - and we added support for off-the-shelf USB keyboards (which are around 20 Euros these days). Look out for http://www.playstation-basic.com/ soon ... (we have until November) ... Personally, I'm keen to be able to bring out a PS2 Net Yaroze with more control for the "power user" (such as you)... watch this space, - Paul Prof. Frink wrote: > "Graeme Evans" writes: > > > having a look at the bison source. its got 'PEEK', 'POKE' & 'SYSTEM'. can > > Eww... I forgot how 'powerful' BASIC can be. > > > you say 'firewire bootloader' ?? > > I shudder at the thought of writing a remote bootloader with POKEs, > but damn, it may be possible. :) > > I'm also wondering how the PSX1 'emulation' would work, and if it'd be > possible to break out of it and access the rest of the machine (not > just the old PSX hardware 'I/O processor'.) Original games wouldn't > be able to do it of course, no prior knowledge - but a Yaroze might. > > > > > C'mon george, give us the skinny. > > Yeah. :) > > Toby.