🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <811885865.27479@zonk.team17.co.uk> boberg@team17.com (Stefan Boberg) writes:
>prakash@earthlink.net (Romesh Prakashpalan) wrote:
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>>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 ;) ).
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>   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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.. And we havn't even got onto cache sizes yet....

The puny caches in the Saturn and PlayStation don't make it wasy to run
code anywhere near as fast as a 486 or Pentium run it.  Not to mention the
abuse of the word 'data cache' on the PlayStation.  Since when is 1k of memory
mapped s-ram considered a data cache?  At least the Saturn's is a little better.

-- Jez.