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Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:05 AM

GameTime outside America

Björn comments on my previous post : The default 60Hz-because-of-TV-refresh makes me wonder: does this change to 50Hz when the XBox is connected to a PAL TV? Or - from a not too serious POV - is this just another default chosen in the spirit of "We are
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:03 PM

Understanding GameTime

Time can be a surprisingly slippery concept to get to grips with. Back when I was working on Allegro it caused the most common question from new programmers , and even though XNA does more than Allegro to handle time for you, it appears some people are
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 14 Comments
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:12 PM

XNA Unleashed

Every few years I find myself hankering to write a book, but whenever I start seriously thinking about the idea I realize how much work it would be and get scared off. The next best thing to writing a book of my own, though, is reviewing one by somebody
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 5 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:39 PM

GameFest

Looks like the talk abstracts for the upcoming GameFest conference have been published, and yours truly somehow got signed up to give a talk and a half. I only actually volunteered for one, but then Mitch suckered me into helping out with his :-) This
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 9 Comments
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:08 PM

What should I blog about?

My todo list of future blog topics seems to be growing faster than I'm having time to write them! (maybe something to do with my being busy working on new framework features instead? :-) It occurred to me I should find out which areas people would be
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 20 Comments
Monday, July 09, 2007 9:07 AM

Delegates, events, and garbage

Some commenters on my previous post asked for more information about the situations where delegates allocate memory. Here's the scoop. There are actually three reasons why careless use of delegates or events can cause memory allocations: Allocating delegate
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 3 Comments
Monday, July 02, 2007 7:14 PM

Twin paths to garbage collector nirvana

In my previous post I described how to tell if your Xbox garbage collection is taking too long. We saw how the total amount of time spent on garbage collection is the product of the number of collections with the collection latency. This suggests two
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 9 Comments
 
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