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Open Source And Legal Xbox SDK Compiles Doom

Posted by Zonk on Saturday October 9, 2004 @07:30AM from the penguins-and-xboxen-get-back-together dept.

BlueMoon writes "After almost 2 years of silence a new version of OpenXDK (the open source, free and legal development kit for the Microsoft Xbox) has been released. It has now a complete libc replacement, multimedia support (video, joysticks and event handling) using the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) and it migrated to a GCC-based toolchain. To demonstrate the capabilities of the framework, the SDL port of Doom is able to be compiled and executed."

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Re:Wait.... by HoneyBunchesOfGoats · 2004-10-09 10:19 · Score: 4, Informative

Well, they've just completed an SDK for a gaming platform... it makes sense that they would want to test it by using it with a game already known to compile and run properly. That way, if anything goes wrong they can narrow down the variables that could have caused problems.