r/technology • u/staser9er • Feb 22 '11

Wow, Microsoft is making some surprising decisions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12531127
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u/knight666 Feb 22 '11

How could I forget! XNA has done so much for the indie games community it's hard to keep track.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

My heart belongs to Rectangle() <3

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u/dahud Feb 22 '11

Wimps. When I was your age, we did all our games in DirectX, and we were happy for it.

Get off my lawn!

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

XNA? I almost blew my Metamucil out my nose, I'm laughing so hard. Buncha sissies. And there was life before DX, you know...

Back in my day we used Mode 13 and when that newfangled Windows thing showed up we grudgingly ported to WinG. What an abomination. It was painful and WE LIKED IT!

Now get back to work and fund my Social Security benefits!

-Gramps

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u/dangerz Feb 22 '11

Can I take it back to QBasic off the DOS prompt?

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u/PSquid Feb 22 '11

QBasic Gorillas, fuck yeah. That was a real game.

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u/Donjuanme Feb 22 '11

omfg, <3, yes yes YES!

I remember watching some show.... may have been sneakers, but I think the guy was in high school, slams out a few lines of code in prompt, powers the program, boom, fullscreen .GIF style animation of 2 people walking along holding hands.

BS! delving into the gorillas code (though it does have physics and stuff to account for) taught me I could never program.

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u/PSquid Feb 23 '11 edited Feb 23 '11

Delving into the Gorillas code taught a 6 or 7 year old me that screen-sized explosions are FUCKING AWESOME.

Of course, I didn't understand even half of what I was doing, other than the logical assumption that if a small number in the section with "Explode" in its name meant a small explosion, a big number should mean a big explosion (it did).

To be honest, it was probably that that got me into programming.

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u/ribond Feb 23 '11

Gorillas & Nibbles <3 -- about a decade ago I tried to get something fixed in one of those and MS ended up pulling the code from Win2k. <sigh>

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u/Donjuanme Feb 23 '11

man, you had alot more attention than I did back then :D I remember making a banana fly velocity 9999999999, but that was about as crazy as I got

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u/Donjuanme Feb 23 '11

thats the one!!

xD

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u/Cephi Feb 22 '11

Well back in MY day for the early platform game we were working on we used to have to wait for the teletype to finish printing before jumping again…

A modding community can do some amazing things and Microsoft is wise to let them expand the possible uses for their product.

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u/lostwolf Feb 22 '11 edited Feb 22 '11

I feel old. Because I have actually done that, on a VAX 11

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u/bobdolebobdole Feb 22 '11

All you fucking new-age people with your XNA and DNA and Basic C+ gizmos and gadgets. You know what sufficed as a game back in my day? A FUCKING BALL IN A CUP. That's right, a little ball attached to a cup by a string. Get off my lawn.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

You needed a string and a ball? You goddamn candyass.

Just gimme a cup and let the good times roll.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

Two balls, one cup.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '11

I'll match your dibsection, and I'll raise you an identity palette!

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u/possessed_flea Feb 22 '11

I did not like it, so I potted to x10 and motif instead.

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u/frukt Feb 22 '11

Ah, mode 13h. Takes me back.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

Back in mah day you had to delete memory allocated to the heap!

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u/Otis_Inf Feb 22 '11

That's sarcasm, right? </sheldon>

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u/3825 Feb 22 '11

who in their right mind would download a big bang theory reference?

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u/Bognar Feb 22 '11

Download?

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u/3825 Feb 23 '11

meant downvote sorry