Turds. You going to get a mobile phone in the next 24 hours?
Cas 
We went today and got a chance to meet the great guys from crystal squid. I would just like to say a big thanks to Dom and Simon for their words of encouragement. These guys know the games industry and were a true pleasure to talk to, I hope it goes well for you guys and may our paths cross again. Pop in and say hi to AMD, they take the time to address performance issues on the latest platforms ā¦ FX51 and the dual (impressive) opteron. Really worth a visit.
G D
Are they here now? Where can I find them? (Right now Iām in the AMD developers lounge)
Cas
Anyone looking for meā¦
Iām int he AMD lounge nowā¦wearing all black, with a black rucksack and an SF t-shirt.
Iāll be here for the next half an hour or so
Bah - we were there yesterday, but back in Cardiff today 
Would have been good to meet at last
- Dom
ECTS was totally cool!!!
We went on the Thursday and met the guys from Crystal Squid at the AMD lounge, it was nice to finally put faces to some of the names.
Also had a chance to play Doom 3 on some high end machineā¦ I will simple say WOOOOOOWWWWEEEEEE!!!
The guys from AMD were totally cool, I got a chance to see ZTron running on an AMD 64 3800, AMD 64 FX-51 and a Dual Opteron system running Windows XP 64-Bit.
Suffice to say that they all ran like lightining but man oh man did the FX amaze me!!! Ouch I had to engage both anti-aliasing and Bilinear filtering to get the FX up to 100% cpu usageā¦ and that was because my bilinear filtering algo is somewhat crappy.
Windows XP 64 Bit running on the Opterons was the smoothest I have ever experienced any OSā¦ and although it didnāt have a VM the AMD guys went out of there way to get things up and runningā¦ they are the most professional, all round cool dudes I have ever met!!! These guys werenāt just the usual hired helpā¦ they really knew there stuff and showed genuine interest in seeing how AMD hardware performs on different applications.
Anyway, I hope we get to meet more javagaming ppl next yearā¦ although I think the dual-core AMD processors make their debut around the same time as ECTS next yearā¦ so I donāt know if I will be able to:
- Contain my drool
- Peel myself away from the AMD lounge
- Correctly formulate sentences
- Stop hugging the AMD case (as done this year)
Jean
Iām jealous! Iām a college kid stuck in the US. No fair 
Maybe sometime in the future Iāll take a trip over to Europe around the time one of these goes on and I can meet up with some of you guys too!