> Hi SonicR,
>
> Some answers to your questions... (see below)
>
> Ken
>
> At 04:01 AM 8/1/2006, SONICR wrote:
> >How much did it cost to finish the project
> >anyway, and what can you tell me about it?
> like
> >DreamCall, was it gonna be in 3.0? because the
> >HTML is still there I know.
>
> Its really impossible to say how much this
> cost...
> We had eight engineers on this for months,
> which
> means to "finish" it was half a million
> dollars.
>
> >was the IM gonna have support for
> MSN/AOL/Yahoo?
> >I remember a servay i think on
> >dreamcast.planetweb about MSN being supported
> >later on.
>
> Definitely, the architecture supported
> multi-protocol
> chat / IM through automatic downloads.
>
> >why didn't the BBA setting be like
> DreamPassport
> >so that it'd configure the DC for PSO and
> such?
>
> Sega of Japan specifically allocated different
> blocks
> in the internal memory storage area for the
> DreamPassport and Planetweb products. PSO is
> a derivative of DreamPassport.
>
> >why didn't the "URL Clock" feature, also in
> >2.6/2.62, get fully re-implamented from the
> >Saturn days?
>
> The clock was removed in favor of the other
> icons that were new, and in general the
> products we were developing at that time
> did not contain a clock feature.
>
> >also why wasn't there ever a "Disable Pics"
> >option like from the Saturn days and
> >DreamPassport/DreamKey?
>
> With larger bandwidths this was deemed
> unnecessary.
>
> >was there ever also gonna be multi browser
> >"Skins" like on the Saturn browsers and
> >DreamPassportPremier?
>
> The feature was not perceived to be very
> valuable, so it was cut from the
> specifications.
> It was a possibility for 3.0, but we decided to
> spend the R & D on new functions like Java.
>
>
>
> ----------
> Ken Soohoo
> President and CEO
> Planetweb, Inc.
> 1300 Island Drive, Suite 202
> Redwood Shores, CA 94065
> (650) 551-5529 (direct)
> (650) 551-5562 (fax)
> soohoo@...
>


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