here's a discussion on slashdot... notice the weird license issues. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/30/0616200&mode=nested
=================================== V3C70R http://www.xanga.com/eviltyler >--- Original Message --- >From: Joachim Diepstraten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 2/1/02 1:48:08 PM > >Hi Mark > >> This doesn't sound like big bucks to me. >> >> The URL is: >> http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/industry_news_display.php?story=957 > >First we had this topic about one or two months ago already so to all it >might be good to look up in the archive to not bring up the same arguments >again. > >Second yes it's not big bugs but you're not able to publish something >official with it (like games) as Sony relies on software-licensees as >they don't earn much or not any money at all with hardware sales > >Third. Even if there is Linux on PS2 OpenGL or even a high-level API is >still far away as SONY's GPU/CPU-Architecture is very special and not seen >anywhere else. Sames goes to Java if I remember correct there is only a >Java-Linux for i686 and not even one for PPC Linux or Alpha Linux (could >be wrong I know there are some people from Blackdown here so please >correct me If I'm talking bullshit). So a PS2-Java/Linux is even more far >away > >Fourth. Java and Java3D is nice but the memory-usage is unfortunately very >high. PS2 has only 64Megs Main-Memory (??? is this figure correct) which >some of it will be taken away from the Kernel of Linux and the Desktop. > >Fifth there are other hardware-limitation which need a complete rethinking >of graphics programming like high-bus-bandwith, UMA, low video/texture ram >(only 4 megs) > >EOF, > J.D. > >-- >Explore SRT with the help of Java3D >(http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/relativity/minkowski) >(http://www.antiflash.net/java3d/relativity (mirror) > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
