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3 Sep 2024 13:16:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Whoot! First video game  
From: Darren New
Date: 7 Jan 2011 12:31:26
Message: <4d274dee$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Nekar Xenos <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Hmm, I wonder if it would be possible to port Pov-Ray to X-Box ;)
> 
>   I think the xbox360 limits quite a lot what files you can transfer to
> and from it, so it could prove difficult to transfer any .pov files to
> it so that it could render them.

Again, speaking only of the amateur xbox stuff (aka XNA), there is sadly no 
good way to get any files on or off. The program can only network to other 
instances of the same program running at the same time, and it can only read 
files it created itself. (Part of the security MS imposed to let you put 
software on their machine that they haven't vetted.)

>   You could write a text editor for the povray port (the xbox360 supports
> USB keyboards), 

I'm not even sure XNA will read the keyboard. It would read the chatpad, but 
that's like coding pov-ray files on your cell phone's keyboard.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."


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