OK, how much would it cost a portable console with a Geode NX 1500@6W, Nforce 3 chipset, 256MB DDR400 and a 20GB hard drive. A built-in 5-inch LCD screen supports resolutions up to 720 x 480?
Make it run linux from the bios to avoid the Windows tax and to get ultra fast boot times.
The reason they are moving to Atomiswave hardware it is because the Neo Geo hardware is fully emulated by several emulators (mame, finalburn, nebula, kawaks, etc.) and rom kiddiez were dumping any new game that were released for this platform. But the atomiswave is bound to be emulated in a couple of years and the cycle will start again. Atomiswave's hardware is a slightly improved dreamcast, they should at least have used hardware based on the PS2 or the Gamecube (those won't be emulated any time soon). If they didn't want to pay royalties they had time to design their own hardware, throw in it a PowerPC cpu, some nVidia graphic chips and linux to run the whole thing and Voila, you have a pretty fast, cheap and propietary system that can't be emulated with present hardware.
Sigh, as things stand now we will have history repeat all over again -_-
Captain america is not the only comic book character that has got a shot of the super-serum;)
http://www.dcmstudiosonline.com/comics/tetsuko/iss ue01/01_cover.html
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OK, how much would it cost a portable console with a Geode NX 1500@6W, Nforce 3 chipset, 256MB DDR400 and a 20GB hard drive. A built-in 5-inch LCD screen supports resolutions up to 720 x 480? Make it run linux from the bios to avoid the Windows tax and to get ultra fast boot times.
The reason they are moving to Atomiswave hardware it is because the Neo Geo hardware is fully emulated by several emulators (mame, finalburn, nebula, kawaks, etc.) and rom kiddiez were dumping any new game that were released for this platform. But the atomiswave is bound to be emulated in a couple of years and the cycle will start again. Atomiswave's hardware is a slightly improved dreamcast, they should at least have used hardware based on the PS2 or the Gamecube (those won't be emulated any time soon). If they didn't want to pay royalties they had time to design their own hardware, throw in it a PowerPC cpu, some nVidia graphic chips and linux to run the whole thing and Voila, you have a pretty fast, cheap and propietary system that can't be emulated with present hardware. Sigh, as things stand now we will have history repeat all over again -_-
Captain america is not the only comic book character that has got a shot of the super-serum ;)
http://www.dcmstudiosonline.com/comics/tetsuko/iss ue01/01_cover.html