Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Paul Holman" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Hardcore (not that kind) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:59:28 -0000 Organization: SCEE Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 43.193.234.102 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Pre-ordering is as much a legal thing as anything else - apparantly (so our ops people tell us) one shouldn't take people's money more than three weeks before you send them a product. Anyway, we've set up a pre-order e-mail subscription list (see http://www.technology.scee.net/) ... and yes, Universities have started contacting us (we were planning to launch first before pushing heavily). Incidentally, we're showing the kit at CeBit this week, Finally, yes, I'm looking at a way to have a subsidy for Net Yaroze users ... Paul "Warren Khan" wrote in message news:a6isno$8jk11@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > Hello. > > Has everyone seen the state of the PS2-Linux forum? I'm hoping that we > still get to keep this private forum - most of the posters here have at > least got a clue about what the hardware is aimed at or at most are > professional game coders. Sarah Ewen (SCEE) has stated that they intend to > ship to Europe at the same time as USA (although we can't pre-order yet??), > so in a few weeks I assume these forums will burst into life again. > > Have you all started making plans of what you are going to do first? I'm > looking forward to converting my strat. game now that I have more polygons > to play with that won't fall over with transparency on. I'm also hoping > that, like PS1, games can be pressed into the official disks - although I > suppose, with the harddisk and network connections, emails and FTP sites > would work. > > Is anyone going to be setting up their own project diary? > > Has anyone heard of any universities that going to order the kits to > replace Yaroze? Has anyone told them? > > Has anyone asked OPSM to have a code clinic section - perhaps with guest > pro-coders? > > Is anyone running a bet on what percentage of sold Linux kits appear on > EBay within 2 months after launch? > > > So many possibilities, it's like being a yaroze newbie again. > > > Warren > >