> "[Apple could also] create a [software] box: the "PlayStation box" (i.e.
>not Blue Box or Yellow Box)
> where you can launch your PlayStation games right off the desktop. Build
>this into every Mac and
> suddenly you've got heaps of games for the platform!
>
> "[While] I recognize that the Nintendo platform is most likely superior
>to the Sony, the fact that the
> Sony comes on CDs would allow for easier integration and lower cost."
>
> All of which makes the following rumor reported to me this morning by a
>several usually reliable
> Apple insiders all the more intriguing...
>
> "We [Apple] are working on a scheme to allow Sony and Nintendo games to
>play directly on Macs
> and to allow Sony and Nintendo developers an easier cross-development
>effort for games that they
> want to deploy both on Mac OS and the game platforms."
>
> Which led me to ask the obvious: How will Apple accomplish this? "We're
>looking at both a hardware
> solution and a software solution, and on the later are working closely
>with Metrowerks," my Apple
> sources told me.
Tim
--Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're full up here. ...Nicholson
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<color><param>0000,00D7,0000</param>> "[Apple could also] create a [software] box: the "PlayStation box" (i.e. not Blue Box or Yellow Box)
> where you can launch your PlayStation games right off the desktop. Build this into every Mac and
> suddenly you've got heaps of games for the platform!
>
> "[While] I recognize that the Nintendo platform is most likely superior to the Sony, the fact that the
> Sony comes on CDs would allow for easier integration and lower cost."
>
> All of which makes the following rumor reported to me this morning by a several usually reliable
> Apple insiders all the more intriguing...
>
> "We [Apple] are working on a scheme to allow Sony and Nintendo games to play directly on Macs
> and to allow Sony and Nintendo developers an easier cross-development effort for games that they
> want to deploy both on Mac OS and the game platforms."
>
> Which led me to ask the obvious: How will Apple accomplish this? "We're looking at both a hardware
> solution and a software solution, and on the later are working closely with Metrowerks," my Apple
> sources told me.
</color>Tim
--
Go sell crazy somewhere else,
we're full up here. ...Nicholson
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