What About Intel's Open Arcade Architecture? 6
AtariDatacenter asks: "Randomly surfing the Web, I stumbled across Intel's
Open Arcade Architecture overview. It was billed as an open architecture PC reference platform for the arcades and the home. Was Microsoft's X-box a response to this, or was this a failed attempt by Intel to fight back?"
Re:A developer's view (Score:1)
Prevention. (Score:1)
Says it was started in 97 - when did the X-box start up?
Malk-a-mite
well (Score:1)
Re:A developer's view (Score:1)
Re:A developer's view (Score:2)
Needless to say this is my personal view, not the position of any company that I have worked for.
A developer's view (Score:4)
It didn't work. My game (Savage Quest [angelstudios.com]) was originally slated to use a Katmai 500, but ended up going down to a PII-450 (you read it right, a P2) for the production machines. In the meantime they shifted to other ridiculous strategies, like telling you that you need a faster processor in order to browse the web effectively.
Most of the games that came out for OAA really sucked. I consider Savage Quest to be an exception, although it is not without its flaws. They were mostly ugly, low-framerate, boring, and completely trite compared to the other coin-op games around them at the time. I played most of them at various arcade convetions that I attended during the development of Savage Quest; except for one (some space-racer called "XCF" or something) I never saw a single one in a real arcade.
I wouldn't mention this, but this is slashdot, so I suppose I shall. I developed the game entirely on a Slackware Linux box. I wrote drivers for the arcade hardware (coindroppers, joysticks etc) and we used dual Voodoo boards for display. I still have the game and it runs beautifully on your average Athalon+Voodoo system, but unfortunately the company that owns the rights (Interactive Light) just went out of business a month or so ago, so I'm afraid that no Linux port is on the way to store shelves, or ever will be. A shame, it's (in my not-so-humble opinion) a darn fun game.