> >Hmmm, surely our problem won't be preparing the
> >evaluation board, but who'll write this hypotetical BIOS?
>
> I think it's useless: why program for a device owned by a few people if
you
> can also program for PSX or PC? Even the GFX9000 never really cought on,
> and there are quite some people who have one. OK, it can't do 3D, but the
> pattern modes and the large number of sprites allow you to make games very
> easily.
If I had a Gfx9000 Strategic Army would have been finished by now, and an
insane cool RPG would also have been nearing completion... And it would be
fast... whow!
It is sooo cool but unfortunately too expensive for me till now.
Example: my Real Time Strategy... The biggest problem at the moment is
displaying the vehicles. When displaying in the center of the screen all is
okay, but if a vehicle is half behind the borders... On the Graphics 9000
(G1-mode) it could have been done like this: 1st plane (back) is field, 2nd
plane (front) is border, fog of war and structures. The sprites between the
planes can be the vehicles (which automatically 'dissapear' behind the
border).
You probably can imagine how easy it is to put the patterns on the screen:
only changing 4 bytes per 16x16-pattern and no copying!!! And smooth
scrolling would also be possible.
Ahh... Anyone willing to give me one for free (or 200 (Dutch) bucks, I
haven't got more at the moment)
> > Does anyone know more information about the ESE DSP Unit? It
would
> >be a nice idea, placing a MP3 decoding scheme into it. As they said,
you'll
> >load up to 4 drivers, where you can have J-PEG and/or M-PEG decoding, SCC
> >and/or Moonsound emulation... Why not a MP3 decoding "module"?
>
> MP3 is part of MPEG... Does anyone know if it's part of MPEG1 or MPEG2?
MP3 is MPEG-1 layer 3.
> >From your words I conclude the ESE-DSP is programmable from the MSX?
That's
> great! It allows any user to make new emulation programs (although DSP
> programming is not easy). It would also allow them to release the ESE-DSP
> before all the emulation software is written...
What is ESE-DSP??? Would it make i.e. Gameboy-emulation possible on the MSX?
~Grauw
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