Dyre Straits

An interesting article appeared on GameShadows WEBsite today. Here's the content for those who may not subscribe to GameShadow:

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Mark this one down as highly sceptical, but you never know.
Intellisponce is a Market Research firm responsible for data belonging to a number of high end developers and publishers. Earlier in the week, the firm’s database was ripped open, and its contents splurged all over the web - including details on a previously unknown piece of software called ‘Trioxide’.
“Introducing the ability to play the latest console games (i.e. Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, etc.) on your PC. Many of these games are only available on consoles today and with this new feature would now be available on the PC as well. With this new feature those console games are now playable on your PC!
Uses the same game controllers as the original console system (all games use regular console controllers, not your computer keyboard or mouse.)”
That’s from the various bumf that was leaked from Intellisponse. No one really knows any more about the technology, or the developer.
The descriptive text seems straight forward enough - I don’t think we’re misunderstanding the purpose of the software - but the practicality of the thing is mind boggling: this is space age technology here. Platform emulation is a very inefficient process, so the chances this is for real are fairly slight.
More than likely, it’s a software concept that no one ever followed up as soon as they realised it was a no hoper.
Still, you never know.
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And, the link:

http://blog.gameshadow.com/?p=393&newsletter=54

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And another link:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168249

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nCaine

Hmmm sadly if one`s know anything about puters , wont take this seriously.

Ther is no uber CODE that can make you puter faster 10 times that other , yes you can optimize it . but it only will give some performance boost .

"The descriptive text seems straight forward enough - I don’t think we’re misunderstanding the purpose of the software - but the practicality of the thing is mind boggling: this is space age technology here. Platform emulation is a very inefficient process, so the chances this is for real are fairly slight."



And about emulation , i dont think its posible to write one app that support difrent type of consoles , they totaly diffrent hw , coded and stuff.


The only miracles with code i seen what back then when Amiga Demo Scene was at its highets peek . I remember that i was amaize what they can do with the hardware at hand.
But that lil diffrent story , coding demos always used many visual tricks .

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Unixlord

Yea the Amiga demos rocked. Every time I saw a new one it put the previous demos to shame.

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Sylvan

Actually emulation could easily be done. The problem is more one of copyright and other industry issues IMO. The actual emulation would only have to be updated for no more than 2-3 consoles at a time, and you might have to use a select few (say 3-6 over a 3 year period) GPU's at a time, but who cares as long as the games will run well, DX10 and special features aren't needed in that case all that's needed is decent direct emulation of the console game.

The same will eventually happen with MAC OSX IMO. When two successive MS OS's haven't garnered the market share that was expected, and a few linux OS's have come to the forefront - Apple will make it's move and it will have to emulate much of the hardware in the beginning for so many different configurations. It won't be as smooth in the beginning as people expect though as it won't really work on as many different configurations as windows and maybe even a few linux distros like Ubunu, but at least it will be out there and there will be a direct competitor to windows, and that's been needed for quite some time. Windows need not be the only major OS for consumer PC's. Just like there's ATI to compete against nVIDIA and AMD as an alternative for Intel, open office vs. MS Office, Firefox vs, IE. There needs to be another major OS that's eminently usable for all without the need for command line.

Dyre Straits

I never owned one, but my son did and he LOVED it! What I owned as a VIC-20 followed by a Commodore 128.

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