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From: Paul Holman <Paul_Holman@scee.net>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: South African developer looking for a Yaroze
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:56:27 +0100
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To: Cookie <gjc53@student.canterbury.ac.nz>

Hi Cookie,

Somewhat odd, since NY was never made available through any retail channels ...
sounds a litte suspicious.

Whilst we're no longer set up to handle individual sales, as I may have
mentioned we do support Universities etc.    If you were able to persuade your
tutor (I'm making a big assumption based upon your e-mail) to apply to us (e.g.
to Charlotte_Morley@scee.net) and sign the resulting educational agreement
(which can provide a free loan of an initial unit) this may be one approach.

Paul

Cookie wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I recently contacted my local sony branch, because as some of you know the
> only way i get to work on some yaroze stuff is to borrow a friends machine,
> No i dont own it, i borrow it.  Anyways sony tracked down a local yaroze
> system, but from my understanding it was loose and possibly incomplete.
> Asking price was Around $450 US ( depending on exchange rates ).  Needless
> to say it was still out of my reach, as i mentioned to them that currently i
> couldnt afford more than around 150 - 200 US, and for a used yaroze which
> was loose and maybe incomplete, i didnt think that was too unfair expecting
> to pay only around $150?
>
> Would that be correct, or should i have snapped at the $450 US price they
> were asking?  Needless to say im still looking for my own machine, i cant
> borrow my friends machine forever, as much as i would like to, so if anyone
> has a way to get me a machine, sony or a group member, please let me know,
> id like to officially be part of this group, with my own machine.
>
> "Paul Holman" <dev_support@scee.net> wrote in message
> news:9kn06t$qtb1@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> > Actually, we've halved the price of "official" PS1 devkits a few months
> > back, and many publishers are very keen to sign up PS1 game developers.
> > I'll see if our own group has an interest.
> >
> > Incidentally, SCEE still provides Net Yaroze systems to Universities as
> > required.   Although I know many had concerns about the legal paperwork
> that
> > was the hurdle for getting the "black box", we fully intend to keep these
> > servers running as long as there is interest, and don't plan to ever
> recall
> > the kits.
> >
> > Finally, we're seeing what the demand might be for Linux on PS2 - check
> out
> > http://www.technology.scee.net/cgi-bin/sceeweb1/scee.pl?ps2linuxint (its
> not
> > live yet)
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > "Matt Verran" <mverran@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> > news:9hqda2$p4m2@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> > > > Give up a Yaroze?! Who would do a thing like that!? You'd have to be
> > crazy
> > > > or something!
> > >
> > > There are TONS of people who own one and havn't appeared on the net at
> > all,
> > > check the complete memberlist:
> > > http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/cgi-bin/list_members.cgi
> > >
> > > Maybe SONY should reclaim all these machines :)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >