> Well, technically, it's already a Windows version as well. You just need
> to install the compiler to get enough of the runtime.

When you use the "Publish" option from VS, doesn't it make an installer 
with the correct code to download and install necessary runtimes?  Of 
course that doesn't fix the button remapping issue for people without 
xbox controllers.

I wrote a simple "InputManager" class to allow games to map multiple 
physical controls from multiple devices to a single action in-game.  The 
digital bit works fine, but I never got around to finishing off the 
analogue part.  My idea was to be able to mark a particular logical 
control as "analogue", then if you mapped a digital physical control to 
it, it would work in an analogue way (with adjustable sensitivity etc). 
  I needed that for the steering of vehicles in my game.

>> Hmm, I wonder if it would be possible to port Pov-Ray to X-Box ;)
>
> With lots and lots of work. The amateur xbox games have to be written in
> C#, not C++. And there isn't a whole lot of memory on the xbox (512M if
> I remember?)

Yeh, I wonder what spec PC would match the performance of the xbox at 
POV?  The xbox architecture is optimised for 3D games (that 512M is 
shared between the GPU and CPU IIRC, so no delay transferring data 
between the two like in a PC).  IMO the PS3 would be better for POV, you 
used to be able to install Linux on it (and Intel had a C++ compiler 
that used all the cores in the CPU), so it seems more feasible than on 
the xbox.  There are some demo videos floating around of real-time 
raytracing on the PS3.

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