Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Craig Graham Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: Re: General question. Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 16:16:34 +0100 Organization: Intelligent Research Lines: 40 Message-ID: <35547352.B127EE7@hinge.mistral.co.uk> References: <3551E529.39700A51@chowfam.demon.co.uk> <6isrju$aek3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <35520452.5385308E@netmagic.net> <35521703.6AC7A819@chowfam.demon.co.uk> <35524CC0.B7F2B618@netmagic.net> <35542F52.F49EB34E@hinge.mistral.co.uk> <6j1h5n$aek12@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.131.235.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) Mark Wilson wrote: > So, you write your game, loading the data up from the PC every time you run > it (which, no matter how fast it is, is always going to be slower than > leaving it in the PSX memory) and then go further, loading in new data and > graphics for each level, maybe extra executable files... "Wow!" you think, > almost as good as coming straight off a CD! Actually, I think you're underestimating exactly how fast an AR is.......it's actually a lot faster than the CD. > And then you come to upload it to your web page for everyone else to admire > your handywork, but there's a problem. You either subject the majority of > users to a 5 minute wait between levels by converting it to run through the > serial port, or just don't bother and say that you must have an AR setup to > play it. CodeWarrior has alway's had this functionality over the serial port. There'sno reason not to do a serial version of the fileserver for GNU as well.... > Don't get me wrong, I think the AR could be a great time-saver during > development (I'll be buying one shortly), but I think to rely on it could be > a mistake. Depends what you're trying to achieve really.... > Basically Sony cocked up big time by using the serial port didn't they? I'd agree there - there were two parallel port only dev systems developed(the Datel DDX and the SN-Systems CartDev), and Sony stopped them both from being sold, then released the inferior environment that we know and love.... > Mark Craig.