The XGameStation... I'm drooling...

[Brian Damage]

This thing just sounds like so much fun... Okay, so it's nowhere near as powerful as any modern consoles, but being able to tinker with it, upgrade it and write your own retro games is going to be... Interesting...

Thoughts, people?

 

[h00dlum]

lol is that real? I mean X(box)Game(cube)(play)Station

 

[Stormy]

sounds like a good idear, but still not as good as pc

do any consoles have any games with real time physics yet ? or they still to crap to run it ?

 

[ray_MAN]

Deus Ex: Invisible War is the only one I know of.

 

[dawdler]

sounds like a good idear, but still not as good as pc

do any consoles have any games with real time physics yet ? or they still to crap to run it ?

Lol, its not like its meant to compete with a PC.
Or at least last time I looked a 25mhz Motorola processor couldnt compete with a 3ghz Pentium. Got to be DAMN efficient if it does

 

[nw909]

Lol, its not like its meant to compete with a PC.
Or at least last time I looked a 25mhz Motorola processor couldnt compete with a 3ghz Pentium. Got to be DAMN efficient if it does

You saying my phone won't run hl2?

 

[Brian Damage]

Well. All I know is that I still find my A1200 more pleasant to use than my PC, dawdler... :E

I think that some people haven't looked at the link, and are under the impression, from the name, that this machine runs XBox/PS2/GameCube games. It doesn't.

It's a Do-It-Yourself console, that will be expandable and modable. And people are actually being encouraged to hack the thing. The kit comes with one fully assembled console, and plans (Which can be freely modified.) for building however many more you want.

The idea as I understand it is that the designs and assembled consoles will be released in evolutionary stages. At the moment, all you have is a basic little system with no 3D hardware and room on the cartridges for a maximum of 64k, so don't expect to run Halo on the thing...

The point, I believe, is to train the users, which will probably be mostly college kids and backroom hobbyists, the principles of electronics and highly optimised programming. The designer, a famous author on the subject of computer game design, seems to be sick of sloppy code and a lack of general optimisation in a lot of todays games. So he wants to make people interested in it again in the most fun way possible.

 

[dawdler]

Well. All I know is that I still find my A1200 more pleasant to use than my PC, dawdler... :E

I know...

14 MHz processor
2 MB RAM
4-Channel Stereo Sound
16.8 million colours, 256 of them displayable simultaneously

And the beast was powered by a 25W PSU.

1337 :E

 

[Brian Damage]

... And it was still more powerful than a similarly featured and priced PC...

I said more pleasant. Friendlier. No bloody BSODs!

(Mine's the 28MHz version, with 4MB of Ram BTW. And it can actually display way more colours than 256 if you use the HAM modes.)