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Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation

Posted by michael on from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

TheAdventurer writes "Andre Lamothe, author of many popular video game programming books, has released his XGameStation. The initial offering, the XGameStation Micro Edition, is a retro level hardware platform, similar to the old Atari and NES systems, designed to teach enthusiasts and students the elements of console hardware design and effective low level programming skills. The unit comes with an e-book written by Andre on how to develop on the platform using its assembly language IDE (included) and how to make your own extensions to the device. It is priced at $199."

3 of 173 comments (clear)

  1. Built in Programmer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article says "built in programmer".
    I knew the Japanese people were small, but this is ridiculous.

  2. Re:Take this with a grain of salt by oskillator · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite was when he suggested that it might be possible to speed up the putpixel calculation in mode 13h by using a two-dimensional lookup table to figure out what memory location in which to store the value.

  3. Re:Pretty cool by kcbrown · · Score: 3, Funny
    As someone who started out on 0.25 MIPS CISC processors, I can comfortably say that you don't have the faintest idea what you are talking about. Abstraction layers appeared shortly after the stored-program architecture. 80 MIPS is serious, serious luxury.

    <grumpy old man>
    0.25 MIPS CISC? Luxury! Why, back in my day, we had to do the calculations in our heads and push the bits back and forth manually, uphill both ways too! And we liked it!

    Kids these days....
    </grumpy old man>

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