Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation

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."

Comments

Re:News Flash

[dasmegabyte]

Yes, but his market here is the type of unrealistic asshole who pops into my C# channel and says ".NET sucks, I program all my SQL code in machine language." You know -- unrealistic do-it-yourselfers with strong convictions and no real talent. Those who can, do. Those who can't usually have an opinion, anyway.

Anyhow, I will say this: if you can build a nice, efficient graphics and sound demo in assembler, you will have an EASY time using C and a modern API to build an even better one.

True facts

[Anonymous Coward]

If the European Union were a U.S. state, it would rank forty-seventh in per capita GDP, according to a report from Timbro, a Swedish free-market think tank. (Yes, there really is one.)

In annual income the average European is on a par with residents of Mississippi, West Virginia, and Arkansas. (And the report excludes the newer, poorer EU nations of Eastern Europe.)

The picture isn't much rosier even in wealthier European states like France and Britain, both of which have per capita GDPs slightly lower than Alabama's. Only tiny Luxembourg scores better than the American average. The United States' material advantage extends beyond income: Americans spend 77 percent more annually than Europeans, own more appliances, and (presumably thanks to our wide open spaces) have homes providing, on average, 721 square feet per person--nearly twice the average size of European residences. The study's authors allow that fast-growing GDP is "not the be all and end all of happiness and prosperity," citing more "intangible" (and quintessentially European) factors such as equality, leisure time, and the environment. But they note, with a defensiveness undoubtedly endemic among Swedish free-marketeers, that "material resources" are a "precondition of much of the wellbeing which people like to call intangible."

Re:interesting

[badmammajamma]

Gee, that's funny. My friend is a PS2 coder and he does it in C. Apparently you aren't too up to date on how things are done for the PS2. But hey, nice try at being an asshole.