OR IS THAT JUST WISHFULL THINKING. If not, will the development kit for xbox be open to us rookies??

Erm. The XBox runs Win2000 (modified). Microsoft will support DirectX on it. Nothing else.

nVidia have intimated that they''ll provide a full OpenGL implementation for it themselves.

What made you think that the XBox won''t use DirectX as it''s one and only native rendering API? It''s a Microsoft product, running a Microsoft OS.

The SDK will, I expect, be a trimmed-down, performance-tuned version of the standard Win32 Platform SDK. Of course, I don''t know that for sure.

Expect it to cost a lot of money, and have several not-publically-documented-but-very-important differences, though.

TheTwistedOne
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xbox will use directx 8 also i do u think it would be wise after microsoft released the xbox that they sold there os for the xbox in parallel so consumers could buy it also.