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pravin wrote:Thanks for follow up.
We don't have PS3 development Kit. We have PS3 game kit.

what is a 'PS3 game kit'? I've never heard of such a thing..

still no-one?

Thanks for follow up. As we are going to start development for PS3 themes & games ,I have few more questions before purchasing the PS3 Dev-kit. Did sony provide any documents on developing PS3 3D dynamic themes and games? Should we develop the games for PSP, PS2, PS3 etc using PS3 Dev-kit? Did ...

pravin wrote:I have question that
To develop 2D Dynamic theme for PS3 we use p3t complier, so using p3t complier should we develop 3D themes?
I found that dev-kit is too costly... is there any other way?

There really isn't another way to develop 3d themes..

pravin wrote:Hi,
How to develop 3D Dynamic theme for PS3 ?
Please advice.

You can't, you'll need a dev-kit before you can develop a 3D dynamic theme...

I'm one of those lazy programmers who doesn't want to spend most of his freetime figuring out how to get something installed and up and running if some other people already have it running. I found a sourceforge project 'windows hosted cell sdk' and it seems to be a project which lets you 'install' ...

So the comment couldn't be referring to pre 2.10 firmware related stuff.. Even though I hardly doubt it would have been anyway, as I can't imaging Yellow Dog Linux using unsupported features which weren't aproved by Sony..

I guess this comment relates to the use of VRAM as swapspace.

Jim wrote:Originally, graphics support was limited to framebuffer access only (no access to the PlayStation 3's graphics chip RSX yet), some access to the RSX graphics chip was achieved however Sony blocked this with firmware release 2.10.

But wasn't FW2.10 released way before YDL 6.1?

I know wikipedia isn't very reliable, but one thing caught my eye when reading the wiki for homebrew: Originally, graphics support was limited to framebuffer access only (no access to the PlayStation 3's graphics chip RSX yet), however, as of Yellow Dog Linux 6.1, the restrictions on the RSX chip ha...