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- On 11 Jan 1996, Stephan Schaem wrote:
-
- > Martin Hasselbacher (hassel@cleo) wrote:
- [...]
- > : One thing I have interest in is all these new Power Consoles, the new
- > : game machines like PlayStation by Sony.
- >
- > : Im just saying that the new Amiga might need some hardware like that.
- > : I was suprised that the PlayStation runs a 32bit risc main cpu at 33 mhz..
- [...]
- > : Im also impressed again by PlayStation that it performs so well with a double
- > : spin cdrom?.. Having DSP helps It? well whatever it does stick it in TheAMIGA++
- >
- > In a perfect world you get a steady stream of 300k second (This can be
- > done) so 6 second to entirely fill the playstation ram. Maybe after 1
-
- This doesn't happen in practice. Don't forget, you will also be filling
- some of the 1M VRAM and the 1/2 M sound RAM with textures and effects.
-
- > second of full speed spin a small intro play and load the rest...
-
- See Ridge Racer with the intro play of Galaxian (if you can complete the
- level in the 10-15s load time you get extra cars available) or Tekken
- with the intro play of Galaga (which you can play up to six levels of if
- you want, allowing you to play as bosses if you complete them).
-
- > Who care about cardridges!
- >
- > I really hate nintendo for bullshiting people about their super idea of
- > not using a cdrom because cardrige memory is 1000 time faster then cdrom,
- > and so having the edge. I wouldn't be amazed if they told people "We choose
- > cardridge because they are harder to break then cd, and you knows kids
- > they break anything they can!"... BTW this is the only reason why I didn't
- > care to wait for the new nintendo machine and got a PSX.
-
- They also go on about some magic 5-10x compression on the cartridges, as
- if they are going to get that on code or world data, and as if they are
- going to have all that RAM to decompress into... Big ROMs are for arcade
- machines only which need to be rather more sturdy than a delicate CD-ROM
- drive would allow.
-
- > Stephan
-
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