Microsoft started a new promotion called DreamSpark. DreamSpark gives all college students (that live in the us, uk, and a few other places) free software that normally costs an arm and a leg for. The software you can get for free includes:
1. Windows Server 20032. Visual Studio 2005 and 20083. XNA Framework 2.0 (and a 1yr Creators Club subscription)4. SQL Server 2003Etc.XNA is the framework that allows you easy development of Windows and 360 games. They're giving away Creators Club subscriptions as well, which allow the developer to develop Xbox 360 games.The link: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Products.aspx—————————————In other news:I'm currently interning at my town hall as an IT tech. I'm helping their shitty website become… Well… Less shitty, in addition to helping solve problems daily on any of the staff member's computers…I also received a free server (Dell PowerEdge 4300) that I'm currently playing around with…Oh, and one more thing… My hosting company, CoreFusion (www.core-fusion.net) has kind of stopped growing and I am currently looking for suggestions of things I can add to increase some customer flow. It's a post2host webhost, meaning, post in our forums, and get free webhosting (ad free, FTP, MySQL, PHP, etc, etc). So if anyone has any ideas, just leave them in a comment here.
Develop games on the 360 for free (and other things)...
Posted by smarttart62 on Feb. 25, 2008, 7:35 p.m.
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well, for starters, an image for each hosting option would help, instead of just links that can be overlooked. simple logos and nice text for each.
also, i would maybe show some of the main features off to the side as a list so people are interested. makes it seem more appealing ;)as for that software stuff, that sounds interesting. im not in college, but it would be neat to mess with that a little when I am if I am still interested.We have the same thing at our college, but it's a piece of shit and doesn't download the images right so I just got pissed and torrented Visual Studio 2008.
the link above is only for selected colleges & universities, besides people that go to those universities can probably afford those programs. Poor people like myself get them via the internet in shady ways. wink wink
@Mixahman
Stop being a complete douchebag and actually read the site. As long as you're in certain countries, ANY PERSON IN ANY UNI CAN GET THEM, even if you goto community colleges.@AGWhen signing up you mean? Sure I'll look into it, and we're working on a real site for the main features junk.