PowerVR Serie 5 is a DX9 chip?

that's correct.

 

You got sunglasses with your game!
Thats SO UNFAIR!!!!!!!

I didn't. Come to think of it, I don't recall completing it either - Leather Goddesses of Phobos was much more entertaining

 

LGOP was also a lot easier than HHTG....

 

Especially in lude mode.

Douglas Adam's other infocom game, "Bureaucracy" was also very very good.

 

"KWEEPA"...HOP....CLAP....

 

I played many hours on Bureaucracy and achieved nothing of note. Now THAT was a tough game.

 

Lol..I never played that, but from your experience, it sounds like you probably played the game perfectly.

 

Naah - He got the point perfectly, but played the game very badly

 

Err... who steered this off topic ?

 

SimonF is mainly to blame for this

 

Feel free to steer us back on topic

 

Considering how much clowning around is going on with you PowerVR guys, I'd predict that Series 5 will be late again.

 

I was under the impression that it's within your best interests that the topic strays in fact off topic.

 

Doesn't it depend on the specifications?

 

Naah, I love the guessing and the tea making facility was news to me as well

 

My guess, if there is going to be competition from PowerVR in the desktop space, it will have to appear this year.
What I hope for is rumors and indications (not even anything specific) some time in the first calendar quarter of this year, as I feel that such in that time period is necessary to remind people (like developers) that PowerVR exists in time for a successful launch of a DX 9 product this year.

Can I get any comments on this while you're around, Kristof...?

 

just found @ 3dcenter.de (thanks ActionNews) :

As it seems David Harold was not happy with the remarks in the 3DCenter article. But the reason for this could very well be, that he didn't read the complete sentence :

Link : http://www.3dcenter.de/artikel/2003/01-05_a_english.php


Kristof,

I hope IMG already has an new, reliable partner, or IMHO even better IMG does it on their own. IMHO the 0,13µm-tech is the last change to develop an system independently for a small company like IMG, cause the development/production costs of the next gen technology will be unbearable.

 

I have been hoping for that for the past 5 years.

In any case, what does "released" sometime in the spring mean? Does this mean the actual chip? Does this mean just the core licensable technology?

As per usual with PowerVR...more questions than answers.

Glad to hear it will be DX9 (assuming the source is correct.) It would be absolutely horrific if it was not. Even if the practicality of DX9 isn't much, not having DX9 would be a marketing nightmare, and the part would fail quite miserably. ATI, nVidia, and S3 (and maybe Trident and Sis) should all have DX9 parts sitting in similar price points by 2H '03, which is realsitically when I suspect Series5 products to appear...if ever.

 

I guess it's TOO MUCH to expect Series 5 to compete with R350 and NV35.
so it will be another value part competing with RV350 and NV31. ah well, I hope it at least makes it to market.