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Article #707444Re: Backwards Compatiblity in $599 Xbox2
From: Ben Britt
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:37
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:37
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YEAH - I heard that too; that development teams were using dual processor Mac G5s. Anyone know for sure? "Rodrigo Milhaven" <swamp...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:sx4ge.26730$XX1.371296@news20.bellglobal.com... > "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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From: "Ben Britt" <bbr...@verizon.net> References: <O_idnTPCKaXPYarfRVn-tg@comcast.com> <rn2g31p0v6j5659acscivjogueu1e4bu1h@4ax.com> <uNXkWimKFHA.1600@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl> <nnji31pju75do5qjlocdk14itnfv4t7ibu@4ax.com> <113js8l6sedbcd5@corp.supernews.com> <sx4ge.26730$XX1.371296@news20.bellglobal.com> Subject: Re: Backwards Compatiblity in $599 Xbox2 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 05:37:52 -0400 Lines: 22 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <egeegQsWFHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl> Newsgroups: alt.games.halo,alt.games.video.xbox,alt.video.games.xbox,alt.xbox.discussion,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,microsoft.public.xbox,microsoft.public.xbox.games,microsoft.public.xbox.halo,microsoft.public.xbox.live,uk.games.video.xbox NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.cleveland-26-28rs.oh.dial-access.att.net 12.75.76.218 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.newsland.it!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit