Hi Travis, Well, to be honest I think while it is a nice idea in concept I also think it is way too limiting. The reason is that I've been exposed to the current gen consoles like the XBox, Play Station, etc and if I were going to support any game console it would be something like that. This idea you are proposing sounds a lot like going back to the Atari/Original NES days and that isn't something I'd really have any interest inpersonally. I'm looking forward to more accessible first-person games, withrealistic sounds, music, and basically any games on par with the mainstream games of today. Not necessarily going back and playing arcade games like Pacman, Asteroids, Space Invaders, blagh.
I think the only way we might have a chance at a real console is to retrofit one of the existing consoles, IE install our own operating system on it, and then build games using that platforms APIs. For example, take a PS2, remove the host operating system, install Linux on it, and then use SDL, OPenAL, whatever to build high-performence titles in C/C++. That's a more realistic approach in my opinion. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
