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Bizzare Game at my workplace.
Lilwolf:
Yup.
And its AMAZING what a pc can do when you program to the hardware you have. Heck, if most applications only worked for either ATI or NVidia you would get much better output. Then stack in that that you don't care about older computer or older video cards so you can really max out all the settings!
But at this level... The OS is there for the core API mainly.... But even then you aren't doing a lot of your code in OpenGL or D3D so choosing XP is probably there for the ease of development, learning curve for the APIs, and later for easier PC / XBox ports.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: webgeek on September 19, 2005, 08:17:57 am ---I doubt it. A stripped down version of 2000 or XP is VERY stable. This is why it's used for kiosks as well. Don't get me wrong, XP still isn't as stable as some versions of Unix, but a well-configured and maintained version of XP is as solid as many of the weaker Linux distros.
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Still, doesn't it make you wonder why Microsoft don't use Windows in Xbox's?? Proof that Window's is dodgy IMO. Not that I dislike it, and I agree XP is very stable.
A local cash machine I used had damn Windows error messages all over the screen. Admittedly it still worked, it was just very hard to see the options behind the error messages.
RayB:
--- Quote from: Minwah on September 19, 2005, 09:42:38 am ---Still, doesn't it make you wonder why Microsoft don't use Windows in Xbox's??
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Minwah:
--- Quote from: RayB on September 19, 2005, 10:02:40 am ---Umm, they do. It's just a special stripped/modded version. It uses DirectX at its core. There just isn't the usually GUI since an XBOX isn't mouse-driven.
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Really? I stand corrected then :-X
romperwomb:
--- Quote ---A local cash machine I used had damn Windows error messages all over the screen. Admittedly it still worked, it was just very hard to see the options behind the error messages.
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Anyone else notice that the exact locations that once had our beloved arcade games now have cash machines in their place? Probably dropped on location by the same vendors that owned the games...
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