Development Kit updates...

[Asher]

I'm curious and couldn't find this information anywhere...:

PS3: How long have developers had Cell and RSX in their devkits?

Xbox360: I'd heard that there was a new kit shipping in May (this month, obviously) -- any word on what's new?

 

[ERP]

I'm curious and couldn't find this information anywhere...:

PS3: How long have developers had Cell and RSX in their devkits?

Xbox360: I'd heard that there was a new kit shipping in May (this month, obviously) -- any word on what's new?

DEH kits have been floating around for a while, the latest ones are final hardware spec, but my understanding is the "final kits" will be a different form factor.

 

[Asher]

Is "a while" longer than two weeks? I've been told by somebody (whose credibility is very slim) that RSX didn't get into developer's hands until 2 weeks ago.

 

[ERP]

Is "a while" longer than two weeks? I've been told by somebody (whose credibility is very slim) that RSX didn't get into developer's hands until 2 weeks ago.

longer than 2 weeks.

 

[nelg]

ERP in another thread you made the comment that dev kits cannot run release media. Can I ask why that is?

 

[ERP]

ERP in another thread you made the comment that dev kits cannot run release media. Can I ask why that is?

Ps2 kits actually will, although not all release disks because they have debug stubs they load when they boot.
XBox devkits won't because they are designed to run unsigned executables. Although you can flash them to release mode.

 

[nelg]

Ps2 kits actually will, although not all release disks because they have debug stubs they load when they boot.
XBox devkits won't because they are designed to run unsigned executables. Although you can flash them to release mode.

Thanks.