Acorn Arcade forums: Games: Sega and PACE
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Syam (21:26 30/1/2001) rich (10:02 31/1/2001) chrisbazley (12:26 31/1/2001) johnstlr (12:35 31/1/2001) rich (14:35 31/1/2001) Syam (19:06 31/1/2001) johnstlr (09:00 1/2/2001)
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Samuel Midgley |
Message #85377, posted by Syam at 21:26, 30/1/2001 |
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Is it true that Sega and PACE are gonna get together and make a set top box? |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #85378, posted by rich at 10:02, 31/1/2001, in reply to message #85377 |
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See http://www.iconbar.com/ for our coverage on this. |
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Message #85379, posted by chrisbazley at 12:26, 31/1/2001, in reply to message #85378 |
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So what if they do? Don't get your hopes up. |
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Lee Johnston |
Message #85380, posted by johnstlr at 12:35, 31/1/2001, in reply to message #85379 |
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I think what could be more important is ARMs announcement that they want to break into the console market. If they do supply the central processor then RISC OS may be able to take advantage. If the Pace STB ends up using the Dreamcast chip then they won't be using RISC OS. |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #85381, posted by rich at 14:35, 31/1/2001, in reply to message #85380 |
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I think what could be more important is ARMs announcement that they want to break into the console market. If they do supply the central processor then RISC OS may be able to take advantage. If the Pace STB ends up using the Dreamcast chip then they won't be using RISC OS. I don't think it's an either/or situation - the Dreamcast stuff will be on one chip (/board) and be almost completely separate from the host machine - just power, video and input switching will be required, which a RISC OS machine is more than capable of handling. |
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Samuel Midgley |
Message #85382, posted by Syam at 19:06, 31/1/2001, in reply to message #85381 |
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I think PACE/risc os are going in to the console market because i have heard that the GBA will use a risc os cpu! |
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Lee Johnston |
Message #85383, posted by johnstlr at 09:00, 1/2/2001, in reply to message #85382 |
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No, the GameBoy Advance uses an ARM700 series processor (I think). It's got nothing do with RISC OS or Pace apart from the processor used. Of course it should mean good job opportunities for any budding ARM coders out there. |
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