Xbox and PowerPC Technology

[takao]

Originally posted by Mav451
I remember one time that i left the SNES in the basement on for a few days. I came back down fer some classic Mario Kart...lo and behold it's already at the Character Select Screen (I'm like...oops).

The SNES wasn't even hot to the touch 🙂
'course those are the golden days when everyone developed for SNES, and then the turn down of the CD-based system...and the rest is history (ugh).

yeah the SNES is still one of the best ever made... "super mario land" is even nowadays still a first class jump and run... on the GBA

as for the G5/developer discussion:
the microsoft console switching away from x86 is a very good thing: the question is: will keep microsoft directX for their console ? if _not_ the chance of faster release on mac etc. will go up _perhaps_

 

[Snowy_River]

Originally posted by Mav451
haha inferior hardware...if i recall, the sega genesis had to be shut down every 2 or 3 hours because it would over heat easily...

Well, that never happened to me with my genesis. I used to play that thing for hours, and it would only slightly warm. There was one time a bunch of friends and I played from 6PM to about 3AM. When I finally unplugged it and put it away, it was not too hot to the touch...