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Article #2066Re: Gaming System vs. PC
From: Stefan Boberg
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:50
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:50
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mullerc@probe.co.uk (Kiwifruit) wrote: >schoen@dial.eunet.ch wrote: >>Too bad that you have to spend around 20'000 bucks to get a >>development system.. It should be heaven to make games on machines >>like psx or saturn... >Not at all - PSX and Saturn development systems cost 2,500 pounds last >time I looked. Plus a decent PC of course. SNES/Genesis development >systems costed 1,500 pounds so it is a bit more expensive. Where on earth did you look then? Last time I looked, a SEGA Saturn devkit cost about 5000 pounds, and the base Sony Playstation devkit without CD emulator, graphics toolkit etc. cost about 12000 pounds. Excluding PC, and of course also excluding the costs for the compulsory tech support BBS calls all across the globe in attempt to obtain matching libraries that actually do what they're supposed to. >Carl Muller >mullerc@probe.co.uk =============================================================== Stefan Boberg - PC/PSX/Saturn Programmer, Team 17 Software Ltd.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!zonk.team17.co.uk From: boberg@team17.com (Stefan Boberg) Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,alt.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Gaming System vs. PC Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:50:54 GMT Organization: Team 17 Software Ltd. Message-ID: <811885866.27479@zonk.team17.co.uk> References: <43p94q$q1f@over.mhv.net> <DF9F0p.5FD@eunet.ch> <DFB506.FyM@news.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zonk.team17.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: zonk.team17.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82