PC still playing Amiga catchup

[Arkhan]

It's obvious that people who are responding here about "Games for Windows" here have never done any real DirectX, Managed DirectX, Or XNA Game Studio programming at all and they are just talking out of their proverbial hats.. If you want to talk about support for more than just game controllers and want to add Windows Live and Xbox live including multiplayer over network (IP), and voice and instant messaging  and headset communication, not to mention the upcoming facial recognition and other technologies..

I suggest you visit the following URLs:

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10.aspx

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/

I don't think about programming a pots unit anymore, please that's done all for me in a standardized kind of way.. I think more about creating a game for the PC and deploying it on the X-box 360 and Zune (all of which cross port via the free XNA game studio 3.0).. And if you look at creators.xna.com there are all sorts of nice 3d and 2d multi-scroller games with (some are free), or I can program my own and sell it directly on X-box live and they are as good as any Amiga game I had back in the day..

Check out catalog.xna.com and get back with me about this discussion..

Thats what im sayin.  Theres alot of *classic console*-esque games on the 360, Wii and PS3!

XNA is pretty fun.  We got a game that finally went live recently (a puzzle game), and are looking into what to do next.

[Arkhan]

I think the whole idea of speed is completely relative, to the user...
In my opinion drawing a simple picture is as fast on Dpaint as it is on any modern graphics package, in fact maybe faster on an Amiga because there were less complicated options and less pixels to push around!
The 'feel' of Amiga was definately faster because the programmes were smaller and much more 'economical' and out of the box, ready to use. There are a lot of labour saving devices on the PC but the more complicated and convoluted it gets the less attractive it is to work with. The modern PC is great at processing vast amounts of information but does that make it more enjoyable? hmmm Amiga wins for simplicity and user friendliness

I agree with that.  I can't do photoshop.  I feel like im drowning in all the crap on screen.   I use Neo-Paint which is some kind of derivative of PC Paintbrush era DOS paint programs.  It has a streamlined feel like all the old DOS/Amiga paint programs.


i still blow at art, but thats a different story :laughing: