milewheeler wrote:Roareye wrote:Cass wrote:Roareye this is really interesting - thanks for all your digital archaeology. If only the little white box had got a some more time - seems that Sega had some ambitious online ideas.
Absolutely. Sega seemed to be ahead of the curve but weren't in the game long enough to enact all the concepts out.
DLC for the first time on consoles.
Downloadable retro titles (Dream Library)
Music Player
Online out of the box
In-game Microphone chat
Keyboard+mouse combo
Portable gaming device (VMU) that would now likely be done as a mobile phone app
VOIP Calling (WhatsApp+ calling anyone?)
Twin stick control inputs (unused currently in the MAPLE controller bus)
Among many others. It would have been glorious to see them stay in the game.
I have a brief video update. -drez01- sent me a modified Dream Passport that he successfully got the Dream Library and page music running on! The audio in the video is unedited and plays through the DC when the relevant pages load. This is and early test, so there's a lot to be done on both the site and the browser disc. We only just worked out that images stored to the disc itself can't have a dash "-" symbol in their name or they fail to load for some reason, but they work fine online. We are inching closer to something usable.
Yes, it's very impressive considering how utterly crap Internet Explorer really was at the time. Slow, insecure, no web standards, bad javascript interpreter, no tabs (!), no download management, bad password management... actually it's useless to list the ways IE sucked, it was just all-round incomprehensible that it was what almost everyone was stuck with for years and years.
Your are good and right. We all know about it. Its really bad for internet surfing too. Thats why it lose his position and his position grabed by other best service provider. Am i right..!