Monthly Archives: March 2008

March 18, 2008
10:26 pm
by: DarrylKC

UUC space invader on TV3

Last week Barry Herbert, Michael McCrystal, and Graham Taylor travelled to Tiperray Institute with lecturer Darryl Charles to compete in the XNA Ireland Space Invaders competition. After only 4 weeks of intense work on a 3D version of space invaders … Continue reading →

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March 18, 2008
10:13 pm
by: DarrylKC

XNA memberships free for students and staff

Through an EduServ Athens validation system, all University of Ulster staff and students can download free Microsoft developer software from https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Products.aspx. This is in addition to our school subscription to the MS Academic Alliance. The most exciting thing for us, perhaps, is the … Continue reading →

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March 18, 2008
9:01 pm
by: DarrylKC

Coleraine student work supported by Microsoft scholarship fund

We were delighted recently to find out that computing students at UU Coleraine will be backed by a MS scholarship of 5000 Euros per year. This was given to us due to our course innovation and high quality student performance. … Continue reading →

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March 1, 2008
4:36 pm
by: DarrylKC

How to make network XNA games – video

Spotted this video from the XNA 2.0 roadshow: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=188 It may help a few of us get networking going a bit quicker.

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