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European Net Yaroze Server Closing

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By Tom Ivan

July 1, 2009

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Sony is to shut the European Net Yaroze server this month.

Launched in March 1997, the Net Yaroze initiative – a £550 piece of tweaked PlayStation 1 hardware along with dev tools and the means to hook it up to PCs/Macs, together with an online support network – was a vital tool in the birth of the careers of many console programmers.

“We plan to make a copy of the site available for our original members,” Paul Holman, of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe R&D, told Develop.

You can read more about Net Yaroze in this feature, which traces the games industry career paths of a number of the programme’s users (thanks for the reminder, Offworld).

brandonnn's picture
On July 2nd brandonnn said:

Happy to be of service!

Indrema's picture
On July 1st Indrema said:

Gonna miss Yaroze.

Sony actually does a great deal for the development community - Collada, for those in the industry, is also Sony. Don't know what the disconnect is lately.

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On July 1st mentor07825 said:

One of the reasons why the PS1 allowed the user to program on it was because Sony could label it as an "Educational Product" as well. At the time "Educational Products" got slapped with less VAT when imported to England....

Alex Walker's picture
On July 2nd Alex Walker said:

Only the specific Net Yaroze PlayStations were programmable though, so how would that work?