The MODE is an FPGA-based optical disc emulator for the Sega Saturn AND Dreamcast. It works on both, plug-and-play, and best of all, requires soldering. The idea is that you can remove the laser CD reader, and replace it with a solid state device, as the laser will fail over time. The selling point for…
A while back I realized that my Xbox Live account was associated with someone else’s Epic Games account. Because of this, I could not play Fortnite on my Xbox. Despite all of my searching, and learning that there are many people with the same issue, I learned that Epic didn’t have an answer either. Their…
I had the sudden urge to go through the Resident Evil series again, so I pulled out my copy of Resident Evil 3 and plugged it into the ePSXe emulator running on my computer. I have the hardware and a framemeister, but it’s far less convenient, in that I don’t have save states or…
My colleague at Microsoft, Hans Reutter, recently posted many videos from the 2018 Portland Retro Gaming Expo, and knowing how much I love older games, I thought I’d share this gem. You can find all of his videos below: Atari Anniversary Series: David Crane and Garry Kitchen Atari Anniversary Series: The History of Imagic with…
Link to the blog I’ve been looking for a great tutorial around building a gaming backend with Azure, and finally found a fantastic one from an MVP, Nick Prueh, Technical Director of Daedalic Entertainment. It includes the source code, and step-by-step tutorials — I cannot recommend it enough! ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and…
Since 2007, Arc onyx provided animation and visual effects service to the TV and film industries. Recently, Arc onyx made the transition to indie game development to pursue projects with philanthropic goals. When we started planning the game to create this year, we came across many wonderful organizations (like GameChangerCharity.org) that use games to help…
Shawn Woods is a gaming veteran of 18 years. His background spans everything from interactive CD-ROMS and TV commercials in the late 90’s to creating Orcs and UI for Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, and Homeworld 2, art direction at Microsoft, and finally co-founding Alpha Dog Games focusing on mobile games. Alpha Dog Games…
At Microsoft we have an internal distribution group for retro computing and gaming. I stumbled across this gem from Hans Reutter the other day, and with his permission, had to share it! ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
I wanted to like this game, I really did. I played it at PAX during an Xbox showcase that Microsoft had for ID@Xbox developers, and the team behind it were cordial. As a huge fan of FMV games, I was looking forward to this myself. I found myself engrossed by the story and idea of…
Andrew Peterson is a software engineer who has spent much of his timing building the N3S, a NES emulator which works on Microsoft’s Hololens. Best of all, the current games on display are not only holographic images presented in world space, but , but are also 3D objects in the form of voxels. Although the…