Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Max" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: South African developer looking for a Yaroze Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:43:14 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 56 Message-ID: <9hqc3f$odf6@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <9hq70s$odf4@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-602.ekto.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Give up a Yaroze?! Who would do a thing like that!? You'd have to be crazy or something! Max Warren Khan wrote in message news:9hq70s$odf4@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > This guy wants a Yaroze but has had no luck so far, his email address is > donlewis@worldonline.co.za > > . > . > I am aware that Sony has closed the doors to the Yaroze and I find it very > sad indeed that they are not > encouraging upstarts to buy into their technology. We are a small developer > here in South Africa and the > reason that I would like to get my hands on one is to play with some ideas > that I have for a game that > we have developed for the PC, to see if it would be feasible to port or not. > Sony's developer kit is very > very expensive and way beyond a small company like mine's reach. > > Our exchange rate is about 12:1 Rands to Pounds, so I guess that £500 would > be about as much as I > would pay for such a system. Some people here barely earn that much in a > month, so it is really expensive. > > If you would be so kind as to ask your contacts on my behalf I would really > appreciate it. > > My hope is that someone bought a system and either lost interest in it, or > found that it was way too technical for them > and have subsequently stopped using it. > > If there is such a person, I would be prepared to negotiate a deal with > them, but it must be at a fair price. > > Thanks again for responding. > > Regards > > Don Lewis-Enright > . > . > Can anyone help him? > > Warren > >