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Old May 18th, 2005, 11:08 PM
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Talking MS finally give in!

I know this probably isn't the best place to post this, but I thought it would make everyone smile.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000440043836

Check out the last picture on the page.. i shouldn't really be that surprised
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Lol. Are those PowerMac G5s?
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Ignore that PowerMac G5 behind the curtain!

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If the demos are running on G5's, will it be easy to port any Xbox360 game to a Mac?
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Better yet, the G5 is umlauting unfinished M$ parts.The thing could/is possibly just emulating the console fully.
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The reason for this is, that the prototypes are not finished yet
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Old May 19th, 2005, 09:59 AM
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If the demos are running on G5's, will it be easy to port any Xbox360 game to a Mac?
Then answer to your question is both yes and no at the same time.

Yes - it will be trivial.
No - It will be a cold day in *ell before Microsoft release their DirectX code.
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Apparently the Xbox360 "Dev Kits", are basically just Apple G5's but running a custom Windows based OS.

Games will be written using Microsoft DirectX APIs, so won't be that straight forward to port.


What I'm interested in though, is the fact that the XBox360, to be launched later this year, will run off a 3 core 3.2GHz G5.
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