It never ceases to amaze me how many companies never learn from the mistakes of others. VM Labs are creating this console so that not only can we play games on it but we can also use it for educational purposes!

Before someone points out how good this sounds..although I doubt if anyone will..let me just say that this has never worked. History proves it. Apple released it's console, Pippen and marketed it as an edutainment product..needless to say it didn't do very well. After the success of the ZX SPECTRUM, SINCLAIR decided to market it's follow up machine at the business sector. This bold move cost the company it's business and had to fold up.

Why the history lesson? I hear you cry. Simple it's because VM Labs are going down that road aswell...and they haven't even released their console yet! Sure the specification is alright but they don't have the backing of big companies like EA, Namco, Squaresoft, etc. This and the fact that many people are going to be playing on their Playstation 2's means that the console is dead befor it even has a chance to prove itself!

I wish VM Labs the best of luck...their going to need it!!!

NUON™ Media Processor Specifications:

• Over 1,500 MIPS
• 216 Million 32-Bit Multiply-Accumulate Operations per Second
• 864 Million 16-Bit Multiply-Accumulate Operations per Second
• 13.5 Million (4x4) x (4x1) Matrix Transformations per Second (32-Bit Elements)

Firmware and Library Specifications:

Digital Video

• MPEG-2 MP@ML Audio/Video Decode
• Video Scaling, Zoom, Picture in Graphics
• DVD Subpicture
• Graphics Overlays
• PAL/NTSC

Digital Audio

• Dolby™ AC-3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, LPCM, PCM
• 3D Spatializer™, ProLogic™
• CD-DA, HDCD™, CD-TEXT
• DVD Audio, MP3, DTS™
• SPDIF Output
• ADPCM and PCM Sample Playback
• 32-Voice General MIDI Wavetable Synthesizer Full MIDI Sample Set
• Advanced Karaoke: Reverb, Chorus, Echo, Flange, Key Control, Vocal Partnering, Harmony

2-D Graphics
MML2D - Full Featured 2D Graphics Library

• 2-D Drawing Functions (Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Arc, Polygon, Bit-blit)
• Support for Various Line Styles, Widths, Gradient Blends, Anti-Aliasing
• Real Time Scaled and Compressed Fonts, TrueType™ Outline Fonts
• 16 Million Colors, Alpha Blending With 256 Levels of Transparency

3-D Graphics
MGL 3D Graphics Library

• Patterned After Computer Graphics Industry Standard OpenGL™
• Bilinear Filtering, Perspective Correct Texture Mapping
• Automatic Mip-Mapping, Lighting

• Console-Style Library Familiar to Console Game Programmers
• 2D Sprites & Tiles, Bilinear Filtering 3D Graphics
• Perspective Correct Texture Mapping, Mip-Mapping

• Non-Polygonal 3D Library

Audio Libraries
Wavetable Synthesizer

• Full Featured General MIDI Compatible
• Automatic MIDI File Parsing
• Voice Editor Allows Creation of Application-Specific Wavetable Banks
• Low-Level API Access

• Plays Digital Audio Samples
• Choice of Sample Rates
• Supports ADPCM Formats, Digital Audio Streaming

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