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Subject: Re: Chessmaster II for Playstation Review

Author: Shep

Date: 07:39:05 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 09:34:37, Michael Cummings wrote:


>It does search slower than my Slowest computer AMD K2-266, but at 20 seconds per
>move, the Playstation did manage two draws against the AMD Computer.
>
>One interesting fact is that the new Playstation 2000 to be released will be
>Equivelent to a PIII 500 in gaming power. So as to how strong the program will
>be over the standard playstation is still unknown.

Don't forget "gaming power" does not necessarily mean "CPU speed".
Probably they will put in a much better GFX engine, but it remains to be seen if
the actual computing power will increase significantly.
Remember how much improvement you get from "P5-200" to "P5-200 w/ Voodoo 3 card"
without changing the raw computing power...

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Shep



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