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To all you Console loving PC hating freaks

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  • 07-11-2000 10:59pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    The PS2 is now classified as a Computer. Not a console.

    In order to get around EU law forcing them to tax the machine they added BASIC to the console to classify it as a PC.

    So instead of a state of the art console, your getting a crappy PC with no monitor, mouse or keyboard. lol smile.gif


    [This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 07-11-2000).]


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    #2
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    but it should provide coders with limited access to the console's 3D graphics engine.
    Ooh, that could be a larf... but then again, it just sounds like a really crappy Yaroze.


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    Mike Hammy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Mike Hammy


    oh god.

    Or a really good games-oriented PC.


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    #4
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    yea but how do you save your programs? At least the ZX Spectrum had a tape drive.


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    #5
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Typical of Sony, adding something that could have been handy, but is totally pointless to the user serving only Sony's needs. They could have built in something useful like C or Java to make the PS2 a sort of amateur developer's console, but presumably that would have been too much effort mad.gif


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    Mik Hammy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Mik Hammy


    Originally posted by Sico:
    Typical of Sony, adding something that could have been handy, but is totally pointless to the user serving only Sony's needs. They could have built in something useful like C or Java to make the PS2 a sort of amateur developer's console, but presumably that would have been too much effort mad.gif

    Because:

    A: It's really a games console.
    B: By saying it's not, Sony get away with paying a fortune in tax, so they lie.


    We've got to work together, C'mon!


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