Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Paul Holman Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: BASIC tax dodge Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:49:38 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3A0FF172.6F244546@scee.net> References: <8siacj$9b2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <8u77gm$db43@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <3A07EAE9.19DA27F5@scee.net> <8u9pfi$892@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 43.194.204.140 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win98; I) I suppose much interest from the group here came because the majority of people has joined after Net Yaroze experiences - and Yabasic is also another European origined program - see http://www.yabasic.de/.. Net Yaroze was much more popular in Europe than the US, and we see Yabasic being its mass market child... Paul Derek da Silva wrote: > > I think its more that the machine will be positioned as a home > > entertainment computer because it will have a hard disc . . . > etc. It's just a little odd Europe should get such a nice feature > before everyone else. I'm quite looking forward to it . . . D da > Silva http://www.dailyradar.co.uk/published/news/game_news_1243.html "That > would be a shame, as it genuinely is a nice program, and despite the > recent speculation, it wasn't designed with the classification issue > in mind," said a spokesperson for Sony. "It was designed to give > everyone the opportunity to create basic programs and demos on their > PS2, regardless of their technical or programming background. With the > success of Net Yaroze, we wanted to make that concept available to a > much wider audience, in a much more user-friendly and cost effective > manner."