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Julius D Haversack
leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
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Terry Hendrix II 🏹
thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
It’s not a real console unless you have to sign a lot of ITAR shit to receive the dev kits.
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@1iceloops123 @georgia @Moon CPUs tbh, particularly ones above a certain speed with SIMD instructions, that's what export controls were concerned about in the late 90s and very early 2000s
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@allison @georgia @1iceloops123 supposedly the reason they were focused on PS2 and not video cards was that PS2s were sold at cost so you got more processing power for your dinar than consumer video cards but I just find the whole thing suspicious that it really paid off.
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Terry Hendrix II 🏹
thendrix@social.hendrixgames.comIt’s also easier to use embedded processors for such use cases. A GPU isn’t that useful by itself, and consoles have way better documentation.
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@thendrix @allison @georgia @1iceloops123 the ps2 had almost no documentation at launch, didn't you do ps2 work?
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Terry Hendrix II 🏹
thendrix@social.hendrixgames.comI still have a devkit for it and the books.
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Terry Hendrix II 🏹
thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
Edited 2 years ago
BTW if it wasn’t clear they used to print out the hardware and software documentation onto sheets of paper, and they’d bind the sheets into a “book”. They had multiple books for different topics to make it easier to look up information. I hope this clears things up for Zoomers.
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Severiɳ川
fiume@soc0.outrnat.nl@georgia@netzsphaere.xyz Man there is something so insanely quaint and nostalgic about seeing a webnews screenshot from 2000.
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CyberPunkBarMaid
anchal@social.likeadragonmaid.dev@georgia
Wait until they hear about official PS2 Linux
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