Rabin's Emails
Since I held on to some of my old email files, I trawled through them looking for some from Rabin, and selected 3...
Rabin being conscise:
Not a bug.
RE
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 10 April 2002 18:03
> To: rw-bug@csl.com
> Subject: PS2 chain block pre allocation when not using freelists
> (PR#3327)
>
>
> when not using freelists and swePreAlloc(..., ..., FALSE) has been
> called:
>
> _sweOpen doesn't allocate anything; it just allocates chain blocks
> using RwMalloc and then frees them using RwFree.
> _sweClose doesn't display the number of chain blocks used.
>
Rabin not happy :
Someone who doesn't understand the implications of their actions added RenderWare Debugging macros to sweDmaSend. They have been removed.
It would be very useful if people who don't know what they are doing left device code alone. It would be anoying to have to perminantly lock files...
RE
Rabin's unique blend of consciseness and wit:
Its what PS2's do. We call the Sony libs to do mode setup so have no control
over this; have you found a non-RW game that does 60Hz MPAL?
RE
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 13 February 2002 10:17
> To: Engineers Support; Engineers Technology
> Subject: Is this a bug : switch to NTSC at 60hz ..
>
>
> Hi !
>
> On a PAL/Secam TV, when I set Rw (any game made with it) to
> 60hz it switches to NTSC .. which sometimes produces a white image ..
>
> Is this a bug ? (well .. not a feature !)
Monday, June 05, 2006
Rabin Ezra
Rabin Ezra
I had picked up a copy of the latest Burnout (revenge ) for PS/2 recently, and finally got to try it yesterday, and I had a shock when I saw one of the screens dedicated to Rabin.
I had worked for Criterion since around 2001, but took a break from 2004-2005. So I guess this explains why I had not heard about this before.
I worked at the US office of Criterion, and one of my roles was supporting Renderware customers. Rabin was usually the port of call for the toughest PS2 low level queries...usually when other engineers had given up on figuring out what was going wrong. I smiled when I read the post about his 40 page PhD submission...it does sound like Rabin. Why waste words when you can express yourself more succintly.
Being that I was in the US office, we did not meet that often, but I remember a lunch we had in San Antonio when he was there for a Siggraph. I was there to introduce our consultant engineer (Chucky) to the UK development team. Somehow we started discussing politics, and I saw another side to Rabin. He would come up with sensible, rational explanations to events and would calm the discussion down. We need more Rabins in this world !
I had picked up a copy of the latest Burnout (revenge ) for PS/2 recently, and finally got to try it yesterday, and I had a shock when I saw one of the screens dedicated to Rabin.
I had worked for Criterion since around 2001, but took a break from 2004-2005. So I guess this explains why I had not heard about this before.
I worked at the US office of Criterion, and one of my roles was supporting Renderware customers. Rabin was usually the port of call for the toughest PS2 low level queries...usually when other engineers had given up on figuring out what was going wrong. I smiled when I read the post about his 40 page PhD submission...it does sound like Rabin. Why waste words when you can express yourself more succintly.
Being that I was in the US office, we did not meet that often, but I remember a lunch we had in San Antonio when he was there for a Siggraph. I was there to introduce our consultant engineer (Chucky) to the UK development team. Somehow we started discussing politics, and I saw another side to Rabin. He would come up with sensible, rational explanations to events and would calm the discussion down. We need more Rabins in this world !
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