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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (21684)	1/4/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: .com	Respond to of 213177

Any response to this rumor from appleinsider.com?: According to sources deep within Cupertino, the big announcement at Steve Jobs' keynote tomorrow morning won't just be the new Yosemite Power Macintosh G3s. What could Apple possibly have up their sleeves this time? Think Games, Think Emulation, Think Playstation. You're hearing us right, it is highly suspected that Steve Jobs will announce a new emulation product from Connectix Corp. that will enable owners of Apple G3 systems to run any Sony Playstation game on their Macintosh, straight out of the box! Apparently emulating a Wintel box didn't give the folks at Connectix enough of a rush, they decided o go all out and make the over 1200 PlayStation titles available to Macintosh users. There are many details and technical explanations for how such a product could exist, but we won't get into that now. The one thing we have learned is that the emulation will be accomplished completely in software, and it should take advantage of the ATI Rage LG 128 chip that will ship in all Yosemite Power Macintosh Configurations. Sources also report that Connectix was seeded with prototype Yosemite boxes over the fall. The pieces just fall right into place. While this tidbit is only a rumor right now, we are treating it as insider information, for our sources on the subject are extremely reliable. Earlier in the day we quoted Mark Gavini, games/entertainment evangelist at Apple Computer, as having said, "There are going to be A LOT of announcements about games at the keynote!" It is also rumored that Apple may bundle the new emulator with a number of their new systems, though this has yet to be confirmed. Imagine the headlines: It looks like it came out of the Jetsons, blue translucent plastics, silk-screen images, it toasts a Pentium II 450, it has FireWire, USB, 100MHz bus, 64 Bit PCI, it slices it dices, and oh yeah, it runs every Sony PlayStation game.