Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

re: Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:00:23 GMT

Bob Taco made a great C++ intro for people who already know C#: geekswithblogs.net/.../c-to-c-ndash-a-somewhat-short-guide.aspx

re: Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

Garegin Tadevosyan — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:47:20 GMT

Hi Shawn.

Just offtopic. What books or resources will you suggest for learning DirectX to 16 y.o. programmer who is quite good in C#, but not so good in C++ ?

re: Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

Toni — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:42:38 GMT

hahaha! Shawn I remember playing your entry in that weekend contest :) Good old days :)

re: Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

Thomas Fjellstrom — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:41:26 GMT

In case people are even remotely interested, Allegro hasn't been an MSDOS (only) library for quite a while. Heck we have iOS, and Android ports for Allegro 5. It's not your father's Allegro ;D

re: Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:11:15 GMT

Heh, good catch Ian! Yes, you're exactly right, we included an Xbox port of this same game as an easter egg in MotoGP. If you turned your bike around on the training level, there was a side door leading down a ramp into a parking garage, and in the corner of that garage was an arcade cabinet. If you rode up and bumped it, you could play Speed on Xbox (complete with a LIVE hiscore table :-)

re: Speed: in which MSDOS meets Windows Phone 8

Ian Cox — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:26:58 GMT

Looking at the screenshots, I'm pretty sure I played this back when I was a tester at THQ... Wasn't this, like, an easter egg in MotoGP or something?