Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Graeme Evans" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Generation Y Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:51:03 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <913ba5$871@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <90l6h3$4bj2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <90ns7d$8c1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <90o06t$8c2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <90o6mt$8c5@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <90o874$8c6@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9126s2$7f1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host62-7-39-151.btinternet.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 hey thats a really sweet article. Nice bit of attitude about lurkers there Mr Rutherford. What i cant understand is how you went the entire article without mentioning direct X once. The bit about 'who will be as brave as sony', surely the next generation of coders will get themselves a nice copy of visual C++ standard edition (complete with great online docs), and a copy of Inside DirectX and Direct3D, total cost about £100. The only thing thats missing is a bit of community (msdn.microsoft.com is a bit slow), and the fact that you dont have to spend £500 to show how committed you are to the games industry. Actually, theres not really anything stopping anyone starting xboxacademy.com ("the same API as your X-box! code like the stars!") as a subscription website, write a couple of passmore-style tutorials every couple of months, do a bit of self-promotion lah di dah. Do you think it would work? hmm graeme