I’m still alive…
…honest I am!
I know it has been a while since I posted anything. Mostly that’s because I haven’t done anything that I thought worth posting about!
I decided to take the opportunity to give the page a bit of a facelift (well ok I upgraded Wordpress and installed a new theme) so some of the stuff here might seem a bit unfinished for a while until I get things properly tidied up.
Seeing as it’s been a while since my last post, I thought that now would be a good time to give a quick rundown of some of the things I’ve been doing since the release of the xbox port of Quake 3.
First off I spent some time trying to improve the OpenXDK. I was working on an xbox specific port of the gcc toolchain as well as trying to get some form of hardware accelerated 2D video. Needless to say this didn’t get finished, and the little headway I had made into hw accel video has been wildly surpassed by a chap by the name of openxdkman.
Following that I thought I’d have a bash at N64 emulation on the xbox by attempting to port Mupen64. To begin with things seemed quite promising but alas it wasn’t to be. Mupen turned out to be very memory hungry, unfortunately it needed just too much for the poor old xbox.
Alongside all of that I continued to tinker with my xbox port of ScummVM, keeping it updated for my own use. There was no real reason why I didn’t release it - I just never seemed to get around to it.
All of the above was made difficult at times because my xbox up and died on me. It was the original v1.0 that I got on launch day (in the UK). I have another xbox but it wasn’t ideal to use for developing - I used it for XBMC and didn’t really want to haul it away from the TV. So I was out of action for a while until I managed to get hold of an xbox debug kit.
Other than that I’ve been spending some time away from most things xbox related (well xbox 1 anyway).
I’ve been keeping an interested eye on anything pertaining to homebrew on the 360. XNA is a nice start from Microsoft but I think the subscription cost is a little high for the majority of hobbyist developers. If a hack is ever forthcoming then I think the 360 scene will be a very interesting place to be…
Posted: February 2nd, 2007 under General.
Comments: 18
Comments
Comment from Ian
Time: February 27, 2007, 6:41 pm
:/ what happened to quake 3? I don’t see a download anywhere..
Comment from Jason
Time: March 5, 2007, 10:42 am
I have been trying to get quake 3 arena port to xbox i cant ge it and it looks so cool i dont have irc i dont even knowwhat it is plzz send me it
Comment from kranmer
Time: March 13, 2007, 1:18 pm
nice to hear your still alive. your old port of scummvm for XBOX was great and i was wondering will you be releasing your updated version ? and if so when ?
Comment from ds
Time: April 2, 2007, 6:51 am
Please, try port Quakeworld or FuhQuake, EzQuake
to XBOX
This PC .exe files mod had features like bunny hops
and too many users active in free servers
Thanks!
Comment from TheAddicT
Time: June 12, 2007, 3:59 am
Hi there,
great to see that you’re still alive. Without trying to sound pushy or anything… but should you ever decide to release an updated version of your scummvm xbox port, I am sure a lot of people would be really greatful for that - including me 
A lot of improvements and new stuff has been added since the last release and if you already got a compile as you say it’s just a matter of releasing it. Long story short: You would make me very happy by doing so.
Greets…
Comment from Ebs
Time: June 21, 2007, 8:30 am
Hi mate, from a fellow brit to another it would be really great if you could release the updated scummvm for xbox!. Cheers. Take it easy.
Comment from Ridicule
Time: June 22, 2007, 7:17 am
Greetings,
just stumbled over your blog while searching for an updated scummvm port. the new relases 0.x is out and introduces support to a bunch of new games. would be really great if you could bring this release to the xbox or find the time to release info on how this may be acchieved so that others can do it.
all the best,
just another nostalgic
Comment from kimota
Time: July 7, 2007, 3:14 am
Hi!
Carcharius, do you ever see yourself re-visiting Spextrum? It would be great to see options such as save states and other UI features like screen resizing etc applied to this superb emulator.
Cheers chap!
Comment from nextor
Time: July 18, 2007, 6:35 pm
you are violating GPL by releasing the binary without the source
Comment from Will
Time: September 15, 2007, 5:38 am
I know this is kind of a bad place but i can’t find a DoomX download anywhere and i’d be EXTREMELY happy if you could send me a link to a mirror or something.I hear all of these people talking about it but then i wonder where they got it from lol.Thanks dude!:)
Comment from wastedfaith
Time: September 15, 2007, 9:08 pm
carcharius, i would like to talk to you about a certain emulator to see what you have to say about the limitations, possibilities, etc. please contact me via my e-mail. really, it’s just a quick question, but i dont want to ask here, because im not sure how certain people would react to thee question.
thanks….igniter1@yahoo.com
Comment from whisp3r
Time: October 11, 2007, 10:55 am
hi, any chance you could explian mods in Q3A port please?
Comment from fan
Time: January 23, 2008, 6:51 pm
hi,
new scummvm release 0.11.0 has been released. if you should get around to updating the port and compiling it people would greatly appreciate it if you could also release it. just put it on a major p2p-platform and that should do the trick.
thanks a lot.
Comment from directhex
Time: February 12, 2008, 9:00 am
Am I going mad, or does your 0.11svn build not support video or COMI? The Dig jumps straight to the game for me (skipping cutscenes) and COMI drops to what smells like a debugging console
Comment from Jeebus
Time: March 10, 2008, 3:45 pm
How did you make the game quake 3 run on xbox? will you ever port other games? plz port NFS2, NFS3 and NFS3, and NFS Porsche Unleashed for XBox. They are PC games that are meant to run with 32mb of ram so they be fine on Xbox 
Comment from Eduardo
Time: July 5, 2008, 11:06 pm
Too bad you are leaving the xbox scene…well, everybody else is doing it so why can´t you? I love ScummVM and you did a great job porting it to xbox. Since you are keeping it updated for your own use like you said please release it to us, ordinary users. And one more request, is there any chance for a modern theme version release?
Comment from LingXioayu
Time: August 14, 2008, 2:18 pm
Hello not to be a pain in the ass but your Quake3 Xbox port totaly sweet. I love the idea that you made it so xbox controllers work. But I use a keyboard and mouse on my xbox. Usb/apple keyboard and Usb Ms optical mouse. I was cerious If I offered a 50 dollar cash reward to make it so the keys are mappable would that be something you would be interested in? The keyboard fully works in the console asdf etc etc. But I can not map them to binding for real controls. I would play the crap out of q3 on my xbox if I could do this. Since your the programmer you know that the number pad keys are bindable and the shift control etc etc just the main keys. I have a felling its because they have been remaped to the controller. If its not to hard and does not take much time I would glady front you 50 bucks for your time if you sent me the modfied xbe for quake3 that will allow usb keyboards to work. If it does take a lot of time and effort let me know if you got 2 minutes. Otherwise ill paypal ya 50 bucks for that quake3.xbe that works with usb keyboards! Thanks Ling
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