Konsolenportierung
English translation: console porting
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console port Explanation: 'porting' is the name for revising, redesigning, recoding, recompiling, and/or doing whatever is necessary to enable a particular software program (in this case a game program) run on a different platform (type of computer) -- in this case a games console instead of a Windows PC sample refs: Gamasutra - Features - "Porting Games to Mac OS X" [07.11.01] This article will address how you can easily port your current game over to the Mac ... Thus, while it is very easy to lose money on a PC or console title, ... www.gamasutra.com/features/20010711/wood_01.htm Commodore 64 Games System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, that symptom was not unique to that port of the game as ... An already saturated console market: The 8-bit C64GS entered the market in 1990 ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_Games_System Video game console - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the command line in modern computer games, see PC game console. .... video game consoles, Nintendo used a front-loading cartridge port similar to a VCR ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2007-07-13 22:29:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- and a program that has been ported is called a 'port' in the jargon (not to be confused with an interface port or communcation port, which is used for data transmission) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 hrs (2007-07-14 19:10:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- If you want to avoid the ambiguity in the meaning of 'port' and don't trust the context to do this for you, you could say 'programs ported to games consoles'. |
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console porting Explanation: ich würde hier "porting" verwenden, da das den Vorgang ausdrückt, dass das Spiel (in diesem Fall) von der PC-Version für Konsolen angepasst wird und daher in diesem Fall sogar ...PC to console porting.. oder auch ... porting a PC game to consoles verwenden. " ... if anyone can get to the PC-to-console porting correct, it should be Crytek." WoW is built as a PC gaming experience. Porting PC games to console often compromises games, and we’d never allow the WoW gameplay experience to suffer.” Porting PC games to consoles is always as effective as porting console games to PCs. I’m not the type of person who detests the idea of porting PC games to consoles, but here, it seems like a bad idea. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 Tag8 Stunden (2007-07-15 06:30:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sorry Courtney, my fault, I definitely got it wrong, the German term is ambiguous, then, the other way round ... when console games are ported to PC ... when porting (console) games to the PC (environment) ... console games to PC porting Square usually develops games for a particular video game console first and then starts porting to PC. Having seen other classic games ported to PC format, such as Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit and the like, may be enough to put some people off buying this one. For the past three years, Beenox has been providing services to Activision by adapting or "porting" games from the game console environment to run in the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh environments. They have some Sega games ported to PC. Porting console games to the PC should not be viewed as some small task to make money on a different system by the developer and publisher. Though, the idea of porting console games to the PC is nothing new. Reference: http://www.amritt.com/VideoGames2.html |
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