I don't recall starting this particular fight between religious loonies, yet I've had to endure the consequences. Personally I feel pity for anyone involved in the political side of the problem, because at it's heart, it's all about STUPID BIGOTTED RELIGIOUS FUCKWITS on both sides.
I personally hope Ian Paisley, and Gerry Adams rot together in hell, both their heads transplanted onto the scarred corpse of a paraplegic bombing victim.
...and you fucking NORAID cunts can quit paying for their plastique and all!
I thought we were four. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
Y'know it's amazing what being bombed on a semi-regular basis for the last 60 years does for the national character. Maybe if someone bombed LA, NY, Dallas and Washington repeatedly, and arbitrarily, with little or no warning, we'd see some shift in the knee-jerk american position on CCTV.
"I believe ( could be wrong ) that the current ps2 has USB ports built in and the xbox will have usb and firewire ports."
PS2 has both USB and firewire, although support for either is 'application dependant'. Basically the hardware is there, the appication just has to load a library and drivers to use the devices. Fortunately USB devices are pretty standardised these days. I would assume the situation with firewire is the same...
Actually Sony's supplying us with Win32 based development environments, via Cygnus and SN systems. I think the additions to gcc are indeed available, but it's pretty much the straight MIPS version though.
There is a linux version, but it's just a couple of compilers, an assembler, and a bunch of minor tools.
Actually even the width of the address bus isn't necessarily a limiting factor. The ancient Sinclair QL used a 68008, which could handle 32 bit addresses, and thus 4GB of memory, but only had an 8-bit combined address and data bus. It'd take 4 bus clocks to select an address, and another four to read/write a 32 bit value from/to the location.
It's also kinda 128bit, in that the register file is 128bits wide, although to access the upper 64 bits of a register you have to load it into the vector unit coprocessor, VU0. Thus allowing you to do such lovelies as single instruction, single cycle, floating point vector MACC's embedded in your normal instruction stream, and indeed, with a little help from a well defined vector class, genererated by the compiler.
$200k would barely cover rent and salaries for a gameboy dev team. Doesn't go very far at all these days. Good size PS2 team can cost over a $1,000,000 per annum in salaries alone.
Check the team size. Guess the salaries, do the maths.
Well if you will spin things at infinite speed, what do you expect? Hang on a sec, just how are you proposing to spin them up to infinite speed? With an infinitely powerfull motor, driven by an infinite watt power supply?
The EE runs the main you compile for the EE. You have to upload libraries to the IOP. The IOP looks like it bootstraps the EE, which then reloads the IOP with the version of the libraries the EE code was compiled to. Difficult to say though, the IOP and its kernel are remarkably under-documented.
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...but not before ritualistically burning the leaves...;)
So you're saying you should buy a copy of Windows, just to use the fonts in Linux?
I don't recall starting this particular fight between religious loonies, yet I've had to endure the consequences. Personally I feel pity for anyone involved in the political side of the problem, because at it's heart, it's all about STUPID BIGOTTED RELIGIOUS FUCKWITS on both sides.
I personally hope Ian Paisley, and Gerry Adams rot together in hell, both their heads transplanted onto the scarred corpse of a paraplegic bombing victim.
...and you fucking NORAID cunts can quit paying for their plastique and all!
What would a 100% increase on 1.0 be?
What would a 50% increase on 1.0 be?
What would a 50% decrease on 1.0 be?
Now, what would a 250% increase on 1.0 be?
Games? 6 months? Only if you work for 3doa.
One that could read TV Guide would be cool...
...I mean, like, where else is it going to get the listings from?
I thought we were four. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
Y'know it's amazing what being bombed on a semi-regular basis for the last 60 years does for the national character. Maybe if someone bombed LA, NY, Dallas and Washington repeatedly, and arbitrarily, with little or no warning, we'd see some shift in the knee-jerk american position on CCTV.
Yep, you'd go blind, and insane, fairly quickly. Ethanol's not exactly good for you, but meths is pretty toxic.
So any soldiers carrying a gas canister the size of the Hindenburg might be in a little trouble...
...from Chinese fighter planes.
The PS2 has:
4 Mb of VRAM on the same die as the rasterisers.
32Mb of system RAM
2 Mb of IOP RAM (hosts the OS)
2 Mb of sound RAM (built in 4x compression)
Plus various small (4-16Kb) buffers, and a kick arse DMA controller to manage it all.
...err, just how accurate do you think a thermonuclear warhead has to be? One could miss manhattan by a hundred miles, and you're still fucked.
"I believe ( could be wrong ) that the current ps2 has USB ports built in and the xbox will have usb and firewire ports."
PS2 has both USB and firewire, although support for either is 'application dependant'. Basically the hardware is there, the appication just has to load a library and drivers to use the devices. Fortunately USB devices are pretty standardised these days. I would assume the situation with firewire is the same...
Segment registers, ala 80286...
That sounds about right, as I said, it was a long time ago...
TOOL's just a PC, with a PS2 dev-board in a PCI slot. Linux runs on the PC side, which IIRC is like a 300MHz Pentium II.
Actually Sony's supplying us with Win32 based development environments, via Cygnus and SN systems. I think the additions to gcc are indeed available, but it's pretty much the straight MIPS version though.
There is a linux version, but it's just a couple of compilers, an assembler, and a bunch of minor tools.
The important stuffs all in the documentation.
Actually even the width of the address bus isn't necessarily a limiting factor. The ancient Sinclair QL used a 68008, which could handle 32 bit addresses, and thus 4GB of memory, but only had an 8-bit combined address and data bus. It'd take 4 bus clocks to select an address, and another four to read/write a 32 bit value from/to the location.
Ouch!
It's also kinda 128bit, in that the register file is 128bits wide, although to access the upper 64 bits of a register you have to load it into the vector unit coprocessor, VU0. Thus allowing you to do such lovelies as single instruction, single cycle, floating point vector MACC's embedded in your normal instruction stream, and indeed, with a little help from a well defined vector class, genererated by the compiler.
Check the team size. Guess the salaries, do the maths.
How long? Oh, the last thirty years at least...
I believe PT Barnum had something to say about suckers, although I think Moore's law is a better approximation to the actual curve.
Microsoft has NO direct control over PC game development, and no revenues from third party titles.
They have TOTAL control over X-Box development, and about $8 per disc royalties. This is no different to the situation with Nintendo, Sega, or Sony.
The book and the movie are intertwined. A composite piece of art. They were created together, and should be appreciated so.
Well if you will spin things at infinite speed, what do you expect? Hang on a sec, just how are you proposing to spin them up to infinite speed? With an infinitely powerfull motor, driven by an infinite watt power supply?
Yeah, but there aren't exactly many services in the US so it's a bit moot...
The EE runs the main you compile for the EE. You have to upload libraries to the IOP. The IOP looks like it bootstraps the EE, which then reloads the IOP with the version of the libraries the EE code was compiled to. Difficult to say though, the IOP and its kernel are remarkably under-documented.