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"ASK THE TEAM (Sonic and Bonus)"

Hey, it seams clear from the millions of posts me and bonus put on today (I put on about 60 and counting!), that between us we know everything about hardware... resolutions, 3d engines, buffers, I/O specs...

So if anyone has any technical questions post em here... and if you know the answer to posted question answer them... it's not just me and Bonus who will post the answers!

BTW, I have not consulted Bonus over this topic... he has no knowledge of it... until he reads this!

Sonic

Bonus wrote:
> Thats not all they do, they allow the CPU to tasks on many
> instructions at once, iff you had to add 10 to 300 integers, an SIMD
> instruction of "add 10" would allow you to do several at
> once depending on how wide your processors pipeline is and what
> other tasks are waiting to be done in the processor, it's all fun
> and games really.


not if its a SIMD chip ...

SINGLE instruction multiple data...

unless your talking about pipelining.. which isnt an extention... (also pipelining doesnt allow a SIMD chip to do multiple instructions at once... if it did it would be a MIMD chip)

Thats not all they do, they allow the CPU to tasks on many instructions at once, iff you had to add 10 to 300 integers, an SIMD instruction of "add 10" would allow you to do several at once depending on how wide your processors pipeline is and what other tasks are waiting to be done in the processor, it's all fun and games really.

Bonus wrote:
Single Instruction
> Multiple Data extensions?

Yeah, and, do you know what they
> are or how they work on the PS2??

I know what they are...

Although its a very general term used to describe the data currency between a CPU and memory...

Its not the sort of thing that needs extentions of any kind?!?!

SISD
SIMD
MISD
MIMD

Thats because Sonic and Bonus are the respected authority on all things hardware these days!!

Well done Sonic, I didnt think you'd get a lot of people on this topic. But it turns out you have.

Well done to ya!

:)

Goatboy wrote:
> Skool Daze, Chucky Egg, Jet Set Willy, Manic Miner ,Horace goes
> Skiing...all of these I remember as quality, I hope it stays that
> way.


Jet Set Willy & Manic Minor are definitly on their way...

I did hear rumors of a GBA Skool Daze (a personal fave) ...

Although I rekon the Horace games have seen their last

(although I rekon if you pick up a PSion hand held you may find a horace title or two hidden away on the machine?

Sad, very sad, indeed, I think it's chronic, best put them out of their misery now. "!BANG!"

Huh huh... yeah... huh huh... huh...

Shut up dillhole...huh...huh...that would be cool...huh...huh.....

Huh huh... huh... you said 'willy'!