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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: PS2 Dev kit
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:13:40 GMT
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How about a USB serial card?  Surely they exist.

I also wonder if someone can't actually use the PS1 built into the PS2
to facilitate that development...

Steven

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:05:35 +0100, "Nigel Critten"
<Nigel@gameware.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>How about this for an idea, with the PS2 Linux kit we could use GCC to write
>Yaroze games and download them to the Yaroze, except the PS2 doesn't have a
>serial port... damn I knew it was to good to be true :)
>
>If it gives us the community of the Net Yaroze and allow us to develop games
>for the PS2, using it's unique hardware and not though X11 then that is
>enough of a selling point for me to get a PS2 over the XBox, the Gamecube I
>want at any cost :)
>
>Nigel
>