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Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 12:21 am
by Nemesis
Anyone else seen news of this new book coming up?
http://readonlymemory.vg/sega-mega-driv ... cted-works
Looks pretty interesting! It's authorized by Sega, and the writers were given access to lots of internal documents. It's 352 pages, including prototype design concepts and hardware/manufacturing details too. Who knows, there might actually be some information in here that helps with emulation.
Re: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 12:46 am
by MintyTheCat
Nemesis wrote:Anyone else seen news of this new book coming up?
http://readonlymemory.vg/sega-mega-driv ... cted-works
Looks pretty interesting! It's authorized by Sega, and the writers were given access to lots of internal documents. It's 352 pages, including prototype design concepts and hardware/manufacturing details too. Who knows, there might actually be some information in here that helps with emulation.
I backed it as soon as it was announced. Looking forward to having a read.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 6:28 am
by foobat
Thanks for the heads' up! I totally preordered
Re: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 7:42 am
by Stef
MintyTheCat wrote:Nemesis wrote:Anyone else seen news of this new book coming up?
http://readonlymemory.vg/sega-mega-driv ... cted-works
Looks pretty interesting! It's authorized by Sega, and the writers were given access to lots of internal documents. It's 352 pages, including prototype design concepts and hardware/manufacturing details too. Who knows, there might actually be some information in here that helps with emulation.
I backed it as soon as it was announced. Looking forward to having a read.
Same here
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 9:36 am
by Oerg866
Looks like my wallet will be lighter by 30GBP soon
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 4:42 pm
by Huge
I remember the kickstarter. I was just wondering a few days ago if it was out yet. Those production details will be very interesting, it looks like this won't be another one of those "collected facts from Wikipedia" type of deals (which is the reason why I'm not buying books anymore).
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:06 am
by matteus
Huge wrote:I remember the kickstarter. I was just wondering a few days ago if it was out yet. Those production details will be very interesting, it looks like this won't be another one of those "collected facts from Wikipedia" type of deals (which is the reason why I'm not buying books anymore).
I have one on order the predicted release date is early August
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 5:11 pm
by Eke
Has anyone received it ?
It's a very nicely made book and the interviews are very interesting, although I would have liked a little bit more to read and more hardware people interviewed.
The most interesting thing to me was probably those original scrapbook pages about Mega Drive VDP design.
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:10 pm
by Jorge Nuno
Interesting tidbit there where it lists a 96-tile plane size, but only in one dimension, perhaps Y
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:45 am
by BigEvilCorporation
Yep, got mine a few weeks ago, still flicking through it. I love the design scrapbook bits!
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:58 am
by foobat
Got mine too, I haven't really sat down with it yet. Looks ok
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:15 pm
by MintyTheCat
My copy has not arrived as yet but the photos are getting me excited
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:50 am
by db-electronics
Still waiting for mine too
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:40 am
by Stef
I just received mine ! Very polished piece really =)
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:07 pm
by Nemesis
Oh man, pity there aren't any more pages of that VDP manual visible, it'd be great to see the full official register list, might give us answers about the few VDP register settings we still don't understand.
