In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> Well, part of it is simply the fact that the displays are
> getting greedier.
True, but it still seems silly to me. I remember having what I considered a
fully functional GUI desktop with KDE cicra 1998, on what was considered
an "old" machine in the office at that time (used to be the secretary's)
On that machine, I did my basic office work, and then had a couple of
separate machines for my testing/compatibility work.
Nowadays, I'm sure that running a "nice" GUI like the modern version of
KDE or GNOME, will consume much more memory for little more than some
extra flashy widgets.
> That's all of -- wait for it -- 16k. And at that it was an
> improvement over the Apple ][, though the latter was able
> to do some false-color NTSC trickery within its 40x48x16
> (woo, 1k) or 280 x 192 x 4 color (I don't remember that
> one) display. But then, the IBM offering was a slightly
> newer vintage: 1981 versus 1977.
I do remember the Apple, and later dealing with CGA, EGA, VGA and SVGA
(oooh!) I think my 15" monitor could do SVGA interlaced. hahaha.
> > As for shoving more RAM into the box, this is a Playstation3, so no
> > hardware additions are allowed, or are feasibly possible.
> >
> The disk drive is upgradeable, but there's at least one active
> discussion that suggests a soldering (or, as one poster puts it,
> sautering (???)) iron is one's best friend.
> http://boardsus.playstation.com/play...read.id=661727
> (This is distinct of course from such things as flash cards, for saving
> game state.)
The Playstation2 could be hacked to use a larger hard drive, and if you're
really brave, you can even hack the current slimline model which doesn't
even have an IDE connector anymore. Whee!
However, the Playstation3 comes with a hard drive, standard, and can be
easily replaced with any laptop SATA drive as illustrated in the
instruction booklet. The mandatory hard drive also means that (finally!)
the Playstation doesn't require additional memory cards for storing game
data.
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