> I've read somewhere that Microsoft doesn't really like that situation > and that they are working on the next version of the XBox to be more > proprietary and tamper-proof.
I have to wonder about the Xbox if it's going to work like Office and other windows products that are "not" backwards compatable. I can play Final Fantasy for Playstation I on my Playstation II, but will the xbox 2 be able to play 1 games? I have problems at work with Outlook, using a new version on one machine and then returning to your "previous" version on another machine corrupts email. > > instead of the willy-nilly > > anarchic tinkering that happens with conventional PCs, it still means > > the game console is becoming just another PC. I used to see those email only little machines in WalMart, connected with Yahoo or some other email service. That's all they did...email...for your kitchen table or some such...I had read in some article that they were the "future" of computing. I don't see them anymore. Why use a console for a PC? Games play better on a computer, my Radeon 9200 graphics card is a lot nicer on my laptop than my PS/2. I like the control of the keyboard or joystick to the PS/2 controller, gameplay is smoother. I do have a PS/2 but that's more to play games as to not fill up my laptop hard drive =] Honestly, it would make a sad computer compared to the 2.4 - 3.x Ghz processored computers that are available now cheap. > > They (surely) want > > third parties to be able to market their Xbox add-ons to work with > > other home entertainment gadgets, and that means some kind of physical > > infrastructure for that, and that means people don't have to rush out > > and buy the Xbox 2 or the Xbox 3 or whatever. Is that the case right now? Can I take my USB [whatever game controler] and plug it into an xbox now? Or is that something thats planned for 2? -Judy -- Gossamer Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
