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Sega is setting the pace now - they'll be in prime position soon!
Sega today ended the flurry of speculation surrounding the DC's future manifestations by announcing a deal with Pace Micro Technology, the UK-based leaders in the set-top box industry. This exciting new innovation will be showcased at international roadshows from the end of January. The box will take advantage of the Dreamcast's network connectivity, combined with its own rapid broadband connections and big capacity built-in hard drive. Basically, this will allow you to download games via the net, play online games and watch telly and other entertainment content via the single piece of hardware. Other innovations promised include the ability to insert customised characters into games, chat in real time and, thanks to high-speed downloading, you can play back any programmes you may have inadvertently missed.
This is obviously an exciting development in the DC's evolution, shedding the skin of the console like a cocoon and becoming a vital cog in a much more powerful and flexible incarnation, so make sure you check back regularly for all the latest details.
Sega today ended the flurry of speculation surrounding the DC's future manifestations by announcing a deal with Pace Micro Technology, the UK-based leaders in the set-top box industry. This exciting new innovation will be showcased at international roadshows from the end of January. The box will take advantage of the Dreamcast's network connectivity, combined with its own rapid broadband connections and big capacity built-in hard drive. Basically, this will allow you to download games via the net, play online games and watch telly and other entertainment content via the single piece of hardware. Other innovations promised include the ability to insert customised characters into games, chat in real time and, thanks to high-speed downloading, you can play back any programmes you may have inadvertently missed.
This is obviously an exciting development in the DC's evolution, shedding the skin of the console like a cocoon and becoming a vital cog in a much more powerful and flexible incarnation, so make sure you check back regularly for all the latest details.
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Are you sure you were using an Amiga?
I'll be straight with you... I was a big Amiga fan... and mourned its loss mightily when it pretty much died a few years ago, even though I had moved onto the IBM PC, I was still followed its fate with avid interest... Guru Meditation and Red Lobster have got to go down in history as works of genius! :) ...
However the Amiga GUI, when compaired to Win95... even Win3.1 was severly lacking... but then again it wasnt supposed to be a competitor.
"...and it all fitted nicely on an 80Mb HD"
Although 99% of Amiga owners never had a hard drive... or more than 1.5MB RAM? ... When the 10MB AMiga HD was released it cost over £100 more than the PC couterpart...
"word processor, spreadsheet, internet connection/browser etc"
Yes?... So did Win3.1?? But their funtionality, presentation and overall vaule was SO much less...
"By comparison, Windows is a sprawling mess! (IMHO, of course!)"
By comparison... yes... but what Windows provides for som many people Kickstart could never hope to even try top attain...
The AmigaOS was a great pice of software... even though it 'felt' like a C program... with much greater skill provided in its coding than todays software... the Amiga itself was a fanstatci machine, with more cutom chips than the current cop of next gen consoles put together... but if compaired to releases today, compact and well written though it wss, it would be severly lacking...
I'll be straight with you... I was a big Amiga fan... and mourned its loss mightily when it pretty much died a few years ago, even though I had moved onto the IBM PC, I was still followed its fate with avid interest... Guru Meditation and Red Lobster have got to go down in history as works of genius! :) ...
However the Amiga GUI, when compaired to Win95... even Win3.1 was severly lacking... but then again it wasnt supposed to be a competitor.
"...and it all fitted nicely on an 80Mb HD"
Although 99% of Amiga owners never had a hard drive... or more than 1.5MB RAM? ... When the 10MB AMiga HD was released it cost over £100 more than the PC couterpart...
"word processor, spreadsheet, internet connection/browser etc"
Yes?... So did Win3.1?? But their funtionality, presentation and overall vaule was SO much less...
"By comparison, Windows is a sprawling mess! (IMHO, of course!)"
By comparison... yes... but what Windows provides for som many people Kickstart could never hope to even try top attain...
The AmigaOS was a great pice of software... even though it 'felt' like a C program... with much greater skill provided in its coding than todays software... the Amiga itself was a fanstatci machine, with more cutom chips than the current cop of next gen consoles put together... but if compaired to releases today, compact and well written though it wss, it would be severly lacking...
Personally, I'd still rate it above Windows, even today.
Everything about the Amiga was compact and efficient, even down to the OS. I had everything on my Amiga that I have on my PC (games excluded) - word processor, spreadsheet, internet connection/browser etc. - and it all fitted nicely on an 80Mb HD, with plenty of room to spare. And it all ran happily in just 1Mb of RAM (even though I had 10Mb).
By comparison, Windows is a sprawling mess! (IMHO, of course!)
If only Commodore, and then Amiga, had had the ability to keep investing and developing, it would have been turned into an amazing system.
Everything about the Amiga was compact and efficient, even down to the OS. I had everything on my Amiga that I have on my PC (games excluded) - word processor, spreadsheet, internet connection/browser etc. - and it all fitted nicely on an 80Mb HD, with plenty of room to spare. And it all ran happily in just 1Mb of RAM (even though I had 10Mb).
By comparison, Windows is a sprawling mess! (IMHO, of course!)
If only Commodore, and then Amiga, had had the ability to keep investing and developing, it would have been turned into an amazing system.
A great in its time... but not up to much these days huh... bseides, the Amiga was a console with a keyboard... :)
AmigaOS - that's a half-megabyte patch! :-)
Wookie... what GUI isnt?
> Besides, no matter what
> you may hate about Microsoft, they were the only people who managed
> to unify the IBM PC platform...
True, but Windows is essentially a multi-megabyte patch that holds together the drivers to all your bits of hardware! :-)
> you may hate about Microsoft, they were the only people who managed
> to unify the IBM PC platform...
True, but Windows is essentially a multi-megabyte patch that holds together the drivers to all your bits of hardware! :-)
Cd-i anyone?
Which will soon be a reality... If only I had some money to make the thing!
-Note to potential sponsers-
I am not mad, I need money to develop my hovercar... of course the benefits of being a sponser of the worlds first commercially produced hovercar would be staggering...
-Note to potential sponsers-
I am not mad, I need money to develop my hovercar... of course the benefits of being a sponser of the worlds first commercially produced hovercar would be staggering...
Though I think with the X-Box is essential to differentiate the MS Windows team from the MS X-Box team...
Besides, no matter what you may hate about Microsoft, they were the only people who managed to unify the IBM PC platform... ony old dogs will remember how messy the PC world was before the Windows monoloply... the wordl 'compatibility' was used in the same tense as flying cars...
Besides, no matter what you may hate about Microsoft, they were the only people who managed to unify the IBM PC platform... ony old dogs will remember how messy the PC world was before the Windows monoloply... the wordl 'compatibility' was used in the same tense as flying cars...
And that hidious phrase that Microsoft likes to use... sends shivers down my spine...
User-friendly... ergghhh...
User-friendly... ergghhh...
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