Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation

Posted by michael on Saturday August 21, 2004 @04:50AM 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."

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Dreamcast Programming by ecliptik · 2004-08-21 05:32 · Score: 5, Informative

200$ is a bit expensive for a hobby video game programming system. Why not just pick up a dreamcast for cheap and use it?

There are plenty of resources for it and some good examples of homebrewed games and applications already out there.

Not to mention it's a lot more modern and you can use some nice rendering hardware.

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Dreamcast Programming
Dreamcast Homebrew
Dreamcast Emulation