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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">It's 

                        Not Easy Being Green</font></i></font></b><br>
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        <a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">Russell &quot;RadPipe&quot; 
                        Lauzon </a></font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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                      February 14, 2000</font></b></h5>
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              <p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>It's 
                funny, but there's been numerous attempts by manufacturers to 
                redefine our PC inputs, yet we stubbornly stick with keyboard/mouse 
                combo. Has anyone sat down and said, &quot;Why don't we just stick 
                a keyboard and mouse in the box?&quot;</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PCs and 
                consoles are becoming more and more similar. At some point, you'll 
                probably see keyboards and mice coming with the console at launch. 
                Right now though, most console developers and designing their 
                games for console gamers. These kids play a lot of RPGs, sports 
                games, fighting games, and platform jumpers, but not a lot of 
                games that require keyboards... I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't 
                mind attracting more PC guys to the console, but its probably 
                much lower on the goal sheet than selling a game they know will 
                be popular.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How 
                do you like programming on the PS2? Is it easier/better/faster 
                than the PC? Than linux?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Programming 
                is programming. I'm not bothered by programming for any specific 
                platform, so much as I'm bothered by things like making sure my 
                NT box and my Linux box and sourcesafe are all working properly. 
                I would say programming for the PS2 is hard in that a PC programmer 
                has a lot to learn about the hardware. A lot of low level code 
                to write. The APIs for PS2 aren't really APIs, they are more like 
                simple tools to help you set up your DMA transfers and such. You 
                write a lot of code that deals with registers directly. Like any 
                new programming task its just learning the new tools and experimenting.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let's 
                talk power. How much more powerful is the PS2 than the original 
                PS?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't 
                know, really. I don't know a lot about the original Playstation's 
                hardware. My understanding is that the power of the Playstation 
                2 lies less in the CPU and more in efficient use of the vector 
                units. Since I'm not doing any work with the PS2's rendering code 
                now, I've not been pursuing PS2 technology very closely. You might 
                want to ask Tim, but there is a lot of stuff we can't talk about 
                because of NDAs.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">From 
                what I understand, the PS2 will be internet ready though it won't 
                be shipping with a modem out of the box. Will you be plugging 
                &acute;net functionality into the code in preparation for Internet 
                play?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't 
                know anything about Sony's plans for network support. I have not 
                seen any APIs on it or heard any information. If we get information 
                on it, we'll support it.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I understand 
                you were part of the Orange Smoothie team. What do you think of 
                their work on Netgames USA?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Its pretty 
                cool. ngWorldStats is a lot of fun to play with, it adds a lot 
                of value to the game. The Net Games guys are really hardcore. 
                They were all professors and research engineers at the University 
                of Kansas and one day they just said &quot;lets go for it.&quot; 
                So they quit their jobs and decided to rough it with their gaming 
                company. That's cool. Its funny because I remember Craig Sparks 
                telling me about his idea for the stat tracking stuff and I used 
                to tell him about how I'd work for a game company at some point. 
                Lo and behold everything worked out.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lawrence, 
                Kansas must have some kind of gaming enchantment cast on it. KillCreek 
                is from there, you know. So is Scott Dalton from Legend. They 
                both went to KU.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's 
                very cool. Did you help with the agreement to put support for 
                ngWorldStats support into UT?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was 
                for granted. We worked up an agreement, but was there any doubt? 
                It was a really cool feature and it didn't take much work to add. 
                I think it really helped give UT some extra replay value. Now 
                you can feel like your nightly game sessions have some impact.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I handled 
                all the NetGames/Epic communication and implemented the features 
                they wanted. Mark took care of getting their logo on the box. 
                It was extremely smooth. I still owe those guys a dinner sometime.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think 
                it's a great feature, except that it shows some of us how poorly 
                we play UT :) </font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anyways, 
                just one more question: What's next for you after the PS2 and 
                UT?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shrug. 
                I don't plan ahead. Takes too much time and its against my nature.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks 
                Brandon!</font></b></p>
              <p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
              <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>-Russell 
                &quot;RadPipe&quot; Lauzon is currently exhausting all his free 
                time researching Beer Goggles.</i></font></p>
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