Re: Gaming System vs. PC

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From: Stefan Boberg
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:50

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prakash@earthlink.net (Romesh Prakashpalan) wrote:

>We are porting Virtual Pool to the Playstation, and let me tell you, that 
>machine is a DOG! It is so slow if you want to do something other than more 
>texture mapped arcade thingies (ala DOOM/Virtua Fighter/etc...). <...>
>  <...>
>	And the development system is a nightmare! Bugs galore, and the 
>debugger sucks (I can go on for days ;) ).

   A pretty accurate account of the problems with both the PS/X and
Saturn. However, you left out the big one: the Playstation only has 2M
of work RAM, and the Saturn even less (1.5M)!! Fitting anything more
complicated than a shoot'em-up into that not fun.

>Romesh

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Stefan Boberg - PC/PSX/Saturn Programmer, Team 17 Software Ltd.

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Subject: Re: Gaming System vs. PC
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:50:53 GMT
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