Hackers make Xbox into a Windows PC

[ZUBi]

also very interesting...


13:49 Monday 30th September 2002 (Matthew Broersma)

The Xbox has been made to run Microsoft's own operating system, turning it into an ordinary desktop workstation, courtesy of some Linux trickery. The accomplishment is a comment on the insecurity of secure hardware ...

read more here:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2123049,00.html

[Gaumont]

lol

[trailergod]

the Xbox is a PC anyways.....

has an Intel P3 733Mhz CPU , 64 MB RAM, and a modified Nvidia GeForce 3 Graphics card, and has a HDD and runs on a scaled down version of Windows 2000...

[Marcus]

Originally posted by tisoy
the Xbox is a PC anyways.....

has an Intel P3 733Mhz CPU , 64 MB RAM, and a modified Nvidia GeForce 3 Graphics card, and has a HDD and runs on a scaled down version of Windows 2000...

It may have all those but it was built to be an XBox - not a PC. And since Microsoft loses money on every XBox sale, turning it into a regular PC you can use for normal stuff is a great deal for you. (Saving something like $50-150 US. ?)

The really hard thing they're working on now is to get it to run Linux and I think they're almost there. What a kick in the face that would be! "Hey Microsoft! Yeah I bought your Box, but you lost money and can expect me to buy ZERO games for it, because I'm running Linux! Eat it! :butt:"

Crazy people with too much time on their hands yes, but they are also very smart.

[dj_spikee]

neat-o! the xbox is like better than my PC anyway lol

[SinBoy-666]

hahaha too funny

[Matt]

Huh?

[redbear]

now if they can just get the X-Box games to run on a PC, then that would be great news !!

[amr.ramadan]

They are working on it. There's a program that is supposed to play HALO on the PC, provided you attach you X-BOX DVD Drive ( boof ) to your PC.

Also, some person managed to convert X-BOX's executables to standard Windows one.

I won't be surprised if Microsoft is the cause of the delay. Because unlike Bleem!, which was incompatible with lots of games, an X-Box emulator once made could run anything.

[Stormwalker]

does that mean you could put a better chip in your xbox.. or a better graphics card to make it run better?