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gothboy 101
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 07:32
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have any of you poeple herd of the microsoft xna or the alienware dhs?

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the desktops
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 08:04
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Nope sounds like something that's never going to be made. Do you habve any more info on it.
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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 13:39
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Microsoft XNA is their SDK for developing XBOX and PC games using the same API set.


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Eric T
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 13:40 Edited at: 12th Jun 2004 13:41
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aren't those SDK's??

edit: TCA beat me to it

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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 13:41
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HA HA HA


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Eric T
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 13:41
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it ain't funny man... it ain't

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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 15:03
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XNA rules, have u seen the videos?


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Eric T
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 15:09
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Actual XNA site http://www.microsoft.com/xna/

XNA Video that was mentioned : http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/7/fc73199f-3574-4705-a2ed-e101e6cbd2c2/xna_demo2_crash.zip

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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 15:48
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<has been eagerly awaiting XNA>



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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 19:38
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Microsft XNA isn't a console, it isn't really more interesting for game developers (although that is what they're selling it as).

Put simply XNA replaced every single Microsoft Library with a single 60MB Runtime + a brand new API which replaces all the current APIs.
For developers of Games, Applications and such this is definately a breakthrough for Microsoft.

It's called XNA because it's based on DirectX 9 Architecture of Independant but Interactable Libraries.
(a play on DNA as it basically is the Nucleus of everything to follow from Microsoft SDK and Library wise)

Alienware DHS is just a Digital Home System; Basically a PC in a Desktop Box with a DVD Drive and Windows XP Media Center. Not aimed at games... Possible with the Radeon 9200/9600/9800 being the base cards in it, but not likely.

You want a real game playing machine:
http://www.alienware.com/alx_pages/main_alx.aspx

one of the most technically powerful machines you can buy publically... In August Alienware will be releasing the a second option to buy Geforce 6-Series (6800 Extreme) editing instead.
Both run on PCI-X

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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 20:56
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Attack of the TLAs....

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gothboy 101
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 23:08
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why i asked is because it only plays pc games right so if you could play a game made on dbp on it couldn't you?

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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 23:18
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I mentioned XNA once!

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 23:53
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You can currently play DarkBASIC Professional games on an X-Box with the sourceforge XBE->EXE converter.
It doesn't work perfectly but thanks to the format outline provided by the CXBX project it means people who don't wanna install Windows XP or Linux onto the machine can play games on it created for the PC.

However it isn't exactly fool-proof.
Comming out over the next year are the Phantom and Apex consoles which are literally PCs in a box using Windows Embedded; setup for games. Apex should run games without any altering, the Phantom does too but you need the company who runs the online server to upload your game else it can't be accessed...

To be frank as neither actually have a controller; both use keyboard+mouse input they're just cheap computers.
NVIDIA has it's 'Media Center' also due out next year ... not sure what the specs are or even what it's aimed at. Chances are that'll add to the small list of 'entertainment center consoles' rather than 'games consoles'

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gothboy 101
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 10:46
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what do you mean by exe converter...how do you do it cause then i could give a game to people who have an x-box raven youre smart please tell me.

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 13:16
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Err...it's not that simple...

My friend had a mod-chip in his XBox. Was actually running SNES games via an emulator he had for it. We also set up a network with it -- could see files on his XBox. Tried transferring a simple C++ game with it and couldn't get it work (yes, was converted to XBE). Probably more to it than just conversion...


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Posted: 2nd Jul 2004 23:17
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Quote: "You can currently play DarkBASIC Professional games on an X-Box with the sourceforge XBE->EXE converter."

The problem is though although it is possible, its not really that exciting since you can't sell them or anything (or maybe its just me being boring ).


Quote: "the Phantom does too but you need the company who runs the online server to upload your game else it can't be accessed..."


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