Aruze Develops Linux-Based Arcade Machine System

Posted by simoniker on Friday August 13, 2004 @12:07AM from the pervasive dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its news that Japanese arcade/pachinko giant Aruze has announced a Linux-based arcade game system for Japanese release this year. Apparently: "Aruze plans to release twenty games for the AP-3 by the end of March 2005, and aims to persuade third party publishers to develop games for the board as well", and furthermore: "The company expects the adoption of Linux to cut development costs for software developers... Aruze also cited the system's high versatility and consistent updates as other factors in its decision." It's also pointed out: "Taito announced in June a similar PC-based arcade board named Type-X. In contrast to Aruze's AP-3, however, Taito's board uses a special edition of Microsoft Windows XP."

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Re:Cue the BSOD jokes by KangXii · 2004-08-13 01:28 · Score: -1, Flamebait

If you ever got a BSOD with Windows XP, you were the one doing something wrong. I've NEVER had a BSOD with XP or 2000. 95 - ME, well that's another story. Try to make sense when you troll next time, we aren't talking about Windows ME here...
gna4 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 07:17 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Itself. You can't Marketing surveys the project is in th3mselves to be a shall we? OK! than a fraction