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    Full Nuon Dev System

    Hey Kevin! Long time no anything! I'm a CUDA guy these days (even got my name in lights as CUDA Fellow last year) and these days I'm doing crazy things with cloud computing and GPUs at Amazon Web Services. And the funny thing: coding the jaguar and the nuon was the best preparation for...
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    Full Nuon Dev System

    I liked both the Saturn and the Dreamcast, but I think the difficulty programming the Saturn versus the relative ease of the PS1 doomed it and the Dreamcast. But if you ask me (and you didn't) game consoles are gradually on their way out - tablets and mobile phones all leading to ubiquitous...
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    Full Nuon Dev System

    Nuon's rendering power was on par with an N64 if not a little better. But like the Jaguar, while it had a lot of computational firepower (BattleSphere was doing AI calculations IMO that were not truly beaten until Halo on the XBox), it was challenging to make full use of that firepower because...
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    Full Nuon Dev System

    In fairness to the Nuon, the PS2 was even harder to program in exchange for having a half-assed 3D accelerator in it. The difference was that there was serious money behind the PS2 while VM Labs was a struggling dotcom. If there had been big money to be made writing Nuon software, it would...
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    Full Nuon Dev System

    It's easy to look back in hindsight at decisions like that but like so many things, it seemed like a good idea at the time I suspect. The Nuon was significantly harder to program than even the Atari Jaguar - at least the latter had a blitter. In contrast, all graphics operations on the Nuon...
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    Full Nuon Dev System

    I wrote the OpenGL library (mGL). It was used in Freefall and several other games. The Nuon (god how I hated that name, especially given that they dismissed my suggestion of "DVDeus") was a promising but hard to program technology: a guy from AutoDesk described us as a "cult of weird British...
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    Full Nuon Dev System

    Going through my closet, I came upon my ancient Nuon development system from my days as a programmer for VM Labs. In an ideal world (and after the fiasco of day one BattleSphere purchasers screwing us over and immediately turning around and reselling their carts on EBAY I know that we don't...
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