phenoms work

[Aleron Ives]

The licence terms of the Katana SDK say that Sega must give you the right to use it (because buying a Katana unit means you're an official third-party DC developer for Sega, or else they wouldn't have sold a dev kit to you). Sega obviously isn't offering to sell the SDK anymore, so if someone sells you a used Katana unit with the SDK software, you're not authorised to use it unless you make your own deal with Sega. Downloading the SDK is piracy and a separate but equally illegal can of worms.

[FuzzyFish]

I don't know why I didn't think of the fact people want to release commercial products. Pretty self-explanatory there, I will say I've been a fan of the WinCE stuff I played with on updating 4x4 Evo.

Back on topic though I'm looking forward to see where this work of his goes. Nifty seeing it run Q3 BSPs

[OGDCFAN99]

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[Aleron Ives]

That's not what I meant. Many indie developers use their indie projects as their resumes so that real companies will hire them to make commercial games. Nobody is going to risk illegally using the Katana SDK, because then they won't get hired. (Fun fact - Portal was based on the game Narbacular Drop, whose development essentially followed this model. The demo game was fun, so the developers got hired to make it into Portal for Valve.)

Also, copyright infringement is always illegal, even if you don't make money from it. It doesn't matter how you set up the system for people to acquire the game. No indie developer wants to put hundreds or thousands of hours into a project only to have it shut down for legal reasons, either.

[BlueCrab]

From the perspective of someone who puts his "indie"/open source development work on his resume, I can say I echo what Aleron Ives has said there 100%.

None of us want to have to hide what we do, especially if it is potentially useful for finding work in the future.

[OGDCFAN99]

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[OGDCFAN99]

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[Jenkins]

Just use KOS. It's free and for commercial use:
http://dcemulation.org/?title=KallistiOS

[cloofoofoo]

Seems he has put up more results and screenshots of his personal tests.Just thought Id re-post it here because it looks cool and everyone might want to see some new 3d dreamcast stuff.I hope he releases some tech demo at some point.

Bump, back in progress.

I have been able to load some larger maps with the new API.




Oh yeah, added models support to the engine, with world collision, for AI entities.


Without multi-texture, we are at 60fps.
The PVR hardware does not support multi-texture, so no matter what approach you use in software, 2x vertices need to be submitted to the PVR.

[Jenkins]

I have a small question which bothered me for quite some time now:
went Ph3noms most advanced state of KGL ever online and/or was it merged with the KOS? I saw a few nehe examples running on my Dreamcast (the spinning cube from the eighth nehe tutorial with different mapping etc.) but some people made me believe that the openGL port is not very optimised and slow. So, is that true?