From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 1 06:44:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29584 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pmpro.com (dyn000979.belt.digex.net [199.125.236.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA29565 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas@pmpro.com) Received: from squash.pmpro.com (squash.pmpro.com [192.168.201.254]) by pmpro.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA20359 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:25:03 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990201092059.0099fc10@pmpro.com> X-Sender: thomas@pmpro.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:20:59 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: PlayStation (was Re: From Slashdot...) In-Reply-To: References: <19990201075813.A2668@tidalwave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:18 AM 2/2/99 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote: >*** UNCONFIRMED RUMOUR *** > >One of the NT weenies I work with said the other day that they're mostly >developed using some kind of Windows cross-development environment. Further, >there's some kind of limited DirectX compatability available, which eases in >the porting of PSX games to and from the PC. > >*** UNCONFIRMED RUMOUR *** > >It would be interesting to know whether or not this is true (especially the >latter). IIRC, the PSX development platform is PC based, with a board set that sits in the PC and a cross development environment under Windows (back when I first looked at it I think it was NT -- could be wrong). Don't know about any DirectX <=> PSX cross development, though I imagine most large production houses would have developed some sort of crossplatform layer to work on top of. ----- Mark Mark Thomas -- pmpro, inc. -- thomas@pmpro.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message