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…
I recently had the privilege of speaking remotely to University of Iowa’s EPX Con 2019: Animation & Gaming Conference. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
I had the privilege of speaking at the 1Up Conference in Belgium recently, and wantedd to share the talk with all of you.I talk not only about the technical aspects of releasing a title for one of Microsoft’s many platforms, but also what Sony and Nintendo require to release on theirs.I also wiped off the stage…
This weekend I have the opportunity to speak at Philly.NET’s bi-annual code camp at the Malvern (Philadelphia region) Microsoft office.
I’m in Las Vegas this week for Ready and Inspire, Microsoft’s internal / external conference, and have been teaching colleagues how to create their own ML / DL models and deploy them to the cloud for customers to consume. The AI team at Microsoft has also done a great job of putting together resources for…
My talk for the Georgia Game Developer’s Association last month is now on YouTube. Thanks again for the opportunity! The game development landscape in 2018 is vast, with handheld devices, consoles, PC, and even mixed reality. With so much out there, it can be staggering to get started, even if you’re a veteran. During…
I just returned from one of Microsoft’s Open Hack events in Toronto, where we coded alongside engineers from several other companies across the region. Link to the GitHub repository One of the challenges required that we’d be able to deploy a trained model to Azure, which would expose an HTTP endpoint. From there, we’d be…
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…
You can find the job posting here. I don’t have you tell you how much I love my job, as I’m sure you already know. I work on the Commercial Software Engineering team at Microsoft, where we build cutting-edge solutions with customers and partners around Microsoft’s newest technology. The role says Washington, DC, but it’s…
As part of a recent code-with project, where the Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team I’m on at Microsoft worked with a large customer, I was assigned with creating a Docker-in-Docker image with the Azure CLI pre-installed. I initially thought “Why would anyone need this?” Also, “How far does the inception go?….Docker within Docker…..within Docker?” There…