7 blog posts tagged XNA

Elite on the BBC Micro
NOV
7
2006
Personal3 minutes

Adding depth to my programming ability

I remember gazing at the screen of Acornsoft’s Elite in my childhood wondering what the code behind those 3D images looked like.

How did they rotate like that? How did it know which lines to hide? And more importantly where I can get a good price for this cargo hold of radio-actives and platinum?

Screenshot of the XNA Game Studio 360 registration window
NOV
2
2006
Development1 minutes

XNA Game Studio Beta 2 has Xbox 360 support

Yesterday I predicted the ability to run XNA code on our Xbox 360’s today.

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OCT
31
2006
Development1 minutes

Compile XNA for your Xbox 360 tomorrow?

There’s a possibility that tomorrow will see the announcement of XNA Game Studio Beta 2 with support for compiling and running applications on your Xbox 360.

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AUG
30
2006
Development1 minutes

XNA Game Studio Express out today

Beta 1 of Microsoft’s free XNA Game Studio Express product should be available for download later today.

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AUG
14
2006
Development1 minutes

Microsoft announces XNA for homebrew, score 1 for my prediction skills

Over the last few months I’ve pieced together various snippets and hints from the web to come to the conclusion that Microsoft’s forthcoming XNA platform, specifically the XNA Framework version, would be available to home-brew developers and let them develop on the Xbox 360 – the first official home-brew since the PlayStation 1’s Net Yaroze!

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MAY
17
2006
Development4 minutes

Piecing together Microsoft’s XNA gaming platform

I’ve briefly covered Microsoft’s XNA gaming platform before but have been trying to piece together what it is actually going to mean to developers.

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MAR
28
2006
Development3 minutes

Microsoft XNA

Microsoft have announced their XNA platform for game development.