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Oobles · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: Ideas for competition?

Hi All..

We need some ideas for a christmas holiday competition for ps2dev. Any ideas welcome!

Ideas I've already had was:
- Classic Demo competition
- Classic 64kb demo.
- Best Tutorial for some aspect of ps2dev.
- PS3 related tools competition

Basically.. I may have some money/prizes (~500USD) that will be available to give away. I was thinking of starting the competition around the start of December. So, tell me if you like the above, or have some better ideas?

David. aka Oobles.

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

What about, Classic game Remakes / Ports

I'd still like to see Aleph One on PSP

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

danzel · Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 182

Remakes only, no ports :)
64k demo could be cool, I would also be interested in that.

jimparis · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 1179 Location: Boston

PS3 accelerated 3d demo would help push development on that front.

jonathan · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Tasmania, Australia

I've been thinking about PS3 demos for a while. Not using 3D acceleration though, but that's just because when I was first considering it there was no 3D hardware support of note.

SPU program, one SPU only, using SPU local store only - no DMA read from main store, no write (apart from video/audio output).

You'd probably need to provide enough standard infrastructure to produce video/audio from an SPU, but it becomes a progressive content/small memory space challenge.

4x the memory and 3200x the clock speed of a C64 - or half the RAM and 450x the clock speed of an Amiga 500. Whatever point of reference you care for ;)

jbit · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

jonathan's idea sounds an awful lot like SCEs VU competitions, it would be nice if we could get a similar harness for the SPUs. We saw alot of cool stuff from the VU compos, an SPU compo could be cool :)

I suggest similar restrictions, you only get one SPU, you only get what you can fit in local store, you can only access system resources through the harness (so the harness provides pad input, framebuffer output, PCM output)
Of course in the VU compos you had access to the GIF/GS, no such luck with this, which could make it more fun I guess (lots of software rendering techniques!)

I'd suggest limiting the output stuff to something sensible like 640x480 32bpp video, and mono 44KHz audio (for example), otherwise most of the SPU time will be wasted preparing data for "highdef"

Good idea :)

Wally · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 672

is this plan going ahead oobles? Im anxious to know :)