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NUON As Open Source Gaming Platform

Posted by timothy on from the a-shipping-product-is-worth-two-in-development- dept.

jjustice writes: "About a month ago, Richard Miller, CEO of VM Labs, announced that "In the near future (I don't want to commit to a date until we are sure of it), we will release to the open development community the tools and documentation that were used to develop these titles - both the games and the movie enhancements. We will also release a few sample applications that can be freely downloaded from the Internet, burned onto CD-R discs, and run on NUON DVD players that can read CD-Rs. Currently only the N501 has this capability, but we anticipate that all future NUON based DVD players will read CD-R and DVD-R media." It's not Linux, but unlike Indrema, the boxes are available. And the technology may not rival PS2 or XBox, but he also says the latest version of the chip is 2-3 times the power of the existing model and cheaper to produce. Besides, I'll support any platform with games from Jeff Minter." No use for all those electronics going to waste, eh?

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  1. I claim this post for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First derivative test tables. -Fran

    1. Re:I claim this post for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      First derivative test tables

      Ah, a noble cause indeed - but will they thank you for it?

      Tom.

  2. Re:First NUON is dead post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Must hide from Jeff Minter, for he is a scary chappy, and funny, like a clown.

  3. Richard Miller... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh no, the President of Caruba has been assassinated!

  4. Slashdot won't tell you this for 2 hours, but... by deaddeng · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RH 7.2 is released, and the FTP servers are not /.-ed yet:

    ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2

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