Showing posts with label Console. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Console. Show all posts

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Adobe's Latest Version Of Flash and Air Will Deliver Console Quality Gaming [Video]

Adobe's Latest Version Of Flash and Air Will Deliver Console Quality Gaming Adobe is working on new versions of Flash Player and Air that could bring some compelling gaming and video features to the table. So compelling, you may even be tempted to install the oft-bloated apps on your computer.

According to Adobe, both Flash and Air will have full hardware-accelerated 3D graphic capabilities and improved 2D graphics. These improvements will enable console-quality gaming on the desktop and mobile devices. That would be a sweet feature if Adobe can pull it off.

Other improvements include HD video support for Flash-based iOS apps, full HD video with Surround Sound 7.1 support for connected TVs, and the addition of Flash Access and Adobe Pass which allows developers to add rental and subscription options to their apps.

And there's one little convenience feature for Air users. Adobe Air can be bundled with an app so developers can release their application and all necessary Air files in one package. Look for the new and improved Adobe Flash 11 and Air 3 to arrive sometime in October. [Adobe]

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Apple Pippen: the Apple TV Precursor, NOT the Game Console [Past Perfect]

Apple Pippen: the Apple TV Precursor, NOT the Game ConsoleYes, Apple TV officially debuted in 2007. And yes, Pippin was the failed Apple/Bandai gaming console from the early '90s. But did you know there was a set-top box Apple was working on in the late '90s named Pippen?

Back in 1996, when Steve Jobs was still in exile, Apple was partnering with Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) to develop the device.The box never saw the light of day, but according to Rob Gould, a broadcast industry veteran who was involved in the project while at Bell Atlantic, it ran a version of MacOS and was intended to pipe streaming video into your TV.

Gould sent the pics to a colleague, Randall Bennet, who offered the only details about this thing:

When it boots, you see the Mac OS Finder on your TV and the inits start loading on the bottom of the screen. It played video from MPEG1 streams at 1.544 mbps, which actually didn't look bad at all in standard-def.

I'm pretty sure I would have had a Stage 5 Excitement Meltdown if I had known such a device was in the works back then. [Randall Bennet via TheNextWeb]

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Guy Merges Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Into One Single Console [Consoles]

Guy Merges Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Into One Single ConsoleReddit user timofiend thought that it would be more convenient to put his original 80GB PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 S into one single console. He took the guts out and put them into a PC tower.

Guy Merges Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Into One Single ConsoleIt's a good idea if you hate clutter. And it doesn't run as hot as you would imagine: 83.3F (28.5C) for the PS3 and 77.9F (25.5C) for the Xbox 360 while idle. Not bad at all. Imgur via Reddit via Gameinformer via Dvice]

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