Company develops EZ port software

From [ur=http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/news/news.pl?y=2002&m=6&nid=19-49.db]Gaming Age[/url]:

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TransGaming Technologies, in partnership with Transitive Technologies, unveil their game-porting technology that can allow Windows-based x86 games to be simultaneously released onto multiple platforms. These include the Sony PlayStation 2, Apple OS, set-top boxes, PDAs and wireless devices.
Vikas Gupta, President and COO of TransGaming stated, "Our portability technology allows applications originally designed for PCs to run seamlessly and transparently on alternate platforms without the need for an expensive and time-consuming overhaul of the source code. What other companies can accomplish in two years of re-engineering, our technology can accomplish within two months." Gupta made this announcement to game developers and publishers at the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), here. E3 is the interactive entertainment event that annually attracts major interactive entertainment companies from around the world.

"We are delighted to collaborate with TransGaming to expand their product market," says John Graham, Transitive's President and CEO. "It is a clear example of how Transitive's translation and optimization product, Dynamite, allows developers to migrate content to other platforms, reducing their costs and giving consumers wider choice and access to content."

Highlighted Links TransGaming TechnologiesTransitive Technologies Ltd TransGaming and Transitive have developed a technology that allows portability faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else. "Imagine being able to release an award-winning game on the PC, Mac, and PlayStation 2 simultaneously." Mr. Gupta remarked. "The solution leverages the large investment made in product development, marketing and content, while realizing deep market penetration for a fraction of the cost of developing for each platform independently. Now imagine taking games to set-top boxes, wireless and PDA devices."

-- Paul Bryant

Great, shoddy PC ports made by an unthinking program, just what PS2 needs...:evil:

Any serious developer will laugh at that. He'd rather spend one year porting his app and making sure that it runs 100%, than taking someone's wrappers and using them and even maybe debugging them at some point when they don't work the way he needs them to. I still say that to optimize you need to know the system, and program for each individual system. The systems are not equivalent, on some you can do something in real-time and on others you have to improvise. It would never take 2 months to port a serious app, only a GameBoy app maybe.

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Yah, stuff like this is usually a joke.

Yarrrrgh... Remember the lame ports of Soldier of Fortune for DC & PS2? These were clearly not optimized for the console hardware. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

I have to confess that this idea doesn't sit well with me either.