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Re: Morning Consolidation

Feb 13, 2013, 21:11

nin

The Half Elf wrote on Feb 13, 2013, 21:01:
Question: the 360 is a Windows machine right? And so will the next Xbox, so shouldn't it be cake for backwards compatibility?

Other than running direct x, I don't think so. I thought I'd read (many) years ago that there were some libraries MS offered, but most devs ignored them and did their own thing.




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

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Comment [quote="nin"Feb 13, 2013, 21:11][quote="The Half Elf"Feb 13, 2013, 21:01] Question: the 360 is a Windows machine right? And so will the next Xbox, so shouldn't it be cake for backwards compatibility? [/quote] Other than running direct x, I don't think so. I thought I'd read (many) years ago that there were some libraries MS offered, but most devs ignored them and did their own thing. [/quote]

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