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by Steril707
Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:55 am
Forum: PS3 Development
Topic: Slim PS3 = No More Otheros
Replies: 82
Views: 63130

Really stupid decision by Sony... Off course the obvious route would be buying a non-slim PS3 then, but the question is, would a firmware update to that older machine kill off OtherOS functionality... How do you guys here think.. I still haven't bought a PS3 yet, so it's hard for me to decide what t...
by Steril707
Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:11 am
Forum: PS3 Development
Topic: Anybody any idea about the official Sony devkit..?
Replies: 11
Views: 8463

Anybody here read the book "Programming the Cell Processor: For Games, Graphics, and Computation" by Matthew Scarpino? Is it any good?

I probably won't need it at first, but the Cell interests me anyway...

greets and thanks,
Mike
by Steril707
Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:43 am
Forum: PS3 Development
Topic: Anybody any idea about the official Sony devkit..?
Replies: 11
Views: 8463

Let's say I'd have something developed in C/C++ using openGL (what's "cg" by the way? (edit: nevermind, found this here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_for_graphics), is there an openGL port to whatever the official devkit uses, so I can simply rewrite the Rasterization target, and really...
by Steril707
Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:10 am
Forum: PS3 Development
Topic: Anybody any idea about the official Sony devkit..?
Replies: 11
Views: 8463

nowadays it's slightly simpler, if you're an indie and you've released some games, you might get devkits to make games for psn. PSN was the target I had in mind, regular Disc releases are far out of anybodies reach who isn't a minimum 30 people studio, I guess. But nothing will work if you just hav...
by Steril707
Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:49 pm
Forum: PS3 Development
Topic: Anybody any idea about the official Sony devkit..?
Replies: 11
Views: 8463

That's a lot of great info here already...

Thanks...


Hope you don't mind me asking a couple more of stupid question here in the future ;)

greets,
Mike
by Steril707
Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:31 am
Forum: PS3 Development
Topic: Anybody any idea about the official Sony devkit..?
Replies: 11
Views: 8463

Anybody any idea about the official Sony devkit..?

Hello folks, I'm new here, and this is my first question.. Anybody here ever tried out an official PS3-Devkit from Sony? What is Sonys' policy on these things these days. I know, for instance, that Nintendo only gives out Wii-devkits to "proven companies", is Sony doing the same? I searche...