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This might be a bit of a leap, but I really hope this ends up in Xbox Media Center / Boxee for the 360. I'm not sure how difficult porting x86 code to PowerPC i
by jarin 15y ago
This might be a bit of a leap, but I really hope this ends up in Xbox Media Center / Boxee for the 360. I'm not sure how difficult porting x86 code to PowerPC is (aside from endianness), but a guy can dream.
- bdonlan 15y agoThis is a hardware hack relying on the CPU's response to an overly-short reset pulse. It's highly doubtful that it can be used on PPCs unchanged.
- sparky 15y agoThe Xbox 360's processor is PPC. GP was referring to the difficulty of porting XBMC and its underlying codecs to PPC. On that front, XBMC already runs on PowerPC[1]. It also already has some flavor of Direct3D bindings, since the original Xbox used D3D 8. No idea whether PPC/D3D 9 would be hard or not. [1] http://xbmc.org/download/ http://xbmc.org/download/
- zdw 15y agoAll of the libxenon stuff is linux based, so it has no way to get at the Direct3D code built into the original written by Microsoft OS. This differs from the original Xbox where most of the "homebrew" was written for the Windows derived OS and ran under it, thus could take advantage of all it's features.
- zdw 15y agoAll of the libxenon stuff is linux based, so it has no way to get at the Direct3D code built into the original written by Microsoft OS. This differs from the original Xbox where most of the "homebrew" was written for the Windows derived OS and ran under it, thus could take advantage of all it's features.
- georgemcbay 15y agoI was a huge fan of XBMC on the original Xbox, but I don't really see much practical use in achieving the same thing on the Xbox 360 given that you can buy or build dedicated HTPC boxes (including ones that run modern XBMC) for as much or less than the 360 hardware these days.
- notyourwork 15y agoI agree, Acer makes the Revo and Zotac has a few for example that between $200-300 get you up and running with nvidia ion for native gpu rendering of HD. Xbmc doesn't really need to run on 360.
- jarin 15y agoYeah, that's a good point. I'll settle for emulators, then.
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoA new DLink Boxee box is around half the price of a new xbox.