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Article #707442Re: Backwards Compatiblity in $599 Xbox2
From: Rodrigo Milhaven
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:35
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:35
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"Doug Jacobs" <dja...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message news:113js8l6sedbcd5@corp.supernews.com... > In alt.games.video.xbox sayNO2steam <sayNO...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, "Michel Thiffault" wrote: > Furthermore, PCs are *NOT* and *CANNOT* be used to develop games for the > next generation of Xbox because Xbox360 is based on a PowerPC chip from > Motorolla, not a Pentium chip from Intel. Truth be told, early Xbox360 > developers have been using Macintohes to develop their games because > Xbox360 will have more in common with a Mac than a Intel PC. Um... Cross-compilers? I'm pretty sure MS has already put one together. Possibly even one that works with Visual Studio, or something. Can you really see Microsoft setting up a Mac shop for in-house XBox development?
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