RichardKAthena
5th July 2007, 02:47 AM
Excuse the blurry picture; trying to find a balance between not having to grab a bloody tripod, and not using flash ;)
But just for fun, my girlfriend picked us up one of these Hydra games development kits from ThinkGeek/Parallax.
It is, to say the least... In Depth. As in, the chip basically has to be told exactly what to do. No display lists, no shells, this is coding hardware to behave like a console. The application development is hosted on a PC and there are some fun toys, the manual is HUGE.
People in the US will have an advantage for instant gratification; the demo libraries all assume NTSC displays.
http://www.parallax.com/
Off topic, as the forum says, but if you like low-level programming and tinkering, you might find this quite fun to play with.
But just for fun, my girlfriend picked us up one of these Hydra games development kits from ThinkGeek/Parallax.
It is, to say the least... In Depth. As in, the chip basically has to be told exactly what to do. No display lists, no shells, this is coding hardware to behave like a console. The application development is hosted on a PC and there are some fun toys, the manual is HUGE.
People in the US will have an advantage for instant gratification; the demo libraries all assume NTSC displays.
http://www.parallax.com/
Off topic, as the forum says, but if you like low-level programming and tinkering, you might find this quite fun to play with.