Hi all, browsing the news returned this interesting find.
"Google is proud to annouce that it will be releasing its popular tool, Google Maps, on the most popular computer entertainment system ever - the NES. Users can expect to buy a cartridge within the month...
...Technical limitations were overcome by connecting over 100'000 servers to provide real time, 8 bit maps generated by cloud computing."
Wow! This stuff looks pretty neat.
You can access a demo by visiting Googlemaps and clicking the "Quest" icon in the top right.
Here's a video demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg&list=FLnIQPPwWpO_EFEqLny6TFTw&feature=plcp
What sort of market for this product? How many folks still have an NES?
Sparky
EDIT: This video also contains some useful technical info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
"Google is proud to annouce that it will be releasing its popular tool, Google Maps, on the most popular computer entertainment system ever - the NES. Users can expect to buy a cartridge within the month...
...Technical limitations were overcome by connecting over 100'000 servers to provide real time, 8 bit maps generated by cloud computing."
Wow! This stuff looks pretty neat.
You can access a demo by visiting Googlemaps and clicking the "Quest" icon in the top right.
Here's a video demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg&list=FLnIQPPwWpO_EFEqLny6TFTw&feature=plcp
What sort of market for this product? How many folks still have an NES?
Sparky
EDIT: This video also contains some useful technical info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0