| From: | Zoltan Hunt |
| Date: | 23 Sep 2000 at 21:06:33 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: OT: Console Market (was: Sega) |
I'd guess a major hurtle would be porting the AmigaDE to use the Dreamcast's
hardware (the Hitachi processor(s), audio, graphics). In order to avoid
writing drivers, its could run hosted on WindowsCE, but that would hurt
performance (15% I seem to remember). Still, an AmigaDE might extend the
Dreamcast's life a bit as it would be able to run upcoming Amiga games. This
is obviously just speculation, but I'd say its possible.
Zoltan
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Pierre <jpj@casema.net>
To: open@amiga.com <open@amiga.com>
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2000 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: AMIOPEN: OT: Console Market (was: Sega)
>They are breaking up with Microsoft for the future, since they are
>now a competitor to Sega (remember X-box?)...
>
>They have a Win CE compatible API, but I'd surprise me greatly
>if their agreement with MS ment they can only use WinCe.
>There were some announcement a few months ago that Sega
>made about bringing a Java Browser to Dreamcast - the company
>was in no way related to MS (I think it was on Devicetop.com)
>
>I think my argument(s) remain valid...
>
>
>
>> > Sega is experimenting, searching, looking for an edge. Why
>> > not just talk
>> > with them?
>> >
>>
>> My educated guess would be that they will not allow (another) OS to run
on
>> Dreamcast hardware (at least officially) since they have some partnership
>> going with Microsoft. (Easily observed by the "Powered by Windows CE"
(or
>> words to that effect) sticker on the front of the unit.
>>
>> --Barry Steenbergh
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