Live Stream: Help Ben Heck Fix a Rare Nintendo Playstation Prototype - Part II!

I have an scph1001 PS1, that will play audio files just fine, but wouldn't play games... Seeing as this predates that system, and the PS1's laser issues where related to age, and it needed its gain / bias adjusted. This brought some life back to the system, it will now play any game I toss it's way, so it might be worth looking into if you have not already.

How to Calibrate a PS1 SCPH-1001 Laser Assembly • Sony Playstation Tutorials • The Iso Zone

yeah... the winner takes the last slice of pizza and the bottle o whisky

Yeah Street Fighter the movie, with JCvD as Guile and Kylie Minogue.

When are we gonna get a Ben Heck Street Fighter Tournament event

And since I like the Jag, here's another fun fact!

There was no API for interfacing with the Tom (GPU) and Jerry (Audio/Secondary GPU) chips.

These days, we have nice pretty APIs for such things like DirectX, OpenGL/OpenAL, Vulkan, etc.

But on the JAG, you had to write any code you wanted to run on those chips in assembly! Then the assembly code would be passed to Tom and Jerry by the 68k, where it would then run independently.

Therefore, most Jag games consisted of three code-bases: a C application containing the game logic running on the 68k, assembly code for rendering running on Tom, and assembly code for either playing sound and music or to assist in rendering running on Jerry. The JagDoom source code is a great example of this.

Luckily, Tom and Jerry were binary compatible, so at least it was the same assembly language used for both.

As you can imagine, though, most programmers didn't want to bother with that nonsense.

Can you reload the game cd, i lost it

Shipping a pizza vaccume sealed in a bag becomes a rigged disc

Started with a broken prototype, ended with Russian Brides.

Great show, best show, 10/10.

Speaking of the Jaguar and its bittiness, the idea that it's several 32-bit processors and they just added the bits is actually a long running misconception.

To my recollection, the Jag consists of a main CPU, a "Tom" chip handling graphics, and a very similar "Jerry" chip handling audio, but could also double as an additional GPU.

The main CPU was a Motorola 68k running in 32-bit mode, so by that account it's actually a 32 bit console.

However, the Tom and Jerry coprocessors were 64-bit processors. Now since bits are arbitrary when applied to graphics, Atari decided since the graphics chips were 64-bit and "16-bit graphics" was the big buzzword of the time, they decided to market it as a 64-bit system.

The TurboGrafx16 was the same way - its main processor was 8-bit, but its graphics processing coprocessors was 16-bit, so they marketed it as a 16-bit console.

don't open it... take it apart