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xbox-scene is a great website for xbox hacking and mod chip information. It even has a comparison of all the xbox mod chips available.


kmart has the Xbox : $180 (item# 981320) can't beat that price. (10% off)

http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/news-archive-1 7-3-2002.php

Interact is putting this out. News bite is buried almost at the bottom of the page.

As you can see here , there are already XBox games ripped from their Discs into a format readable by Xbox developer boxes and Xboxes with modchips. The modchips are almost out and information about them could be found here.

I am an Xbox owner and I don't think I will be trying to pirate using the XBox because I don't want what happened to the DC happen to the XBox. I'm tired of having good alternatives to the giants (Sony & Nintendo) and them being stomped by the fact that Americans (and others) are more interested in getting something free than supporting developers.

BTW one of the "side effects" of the modchips is that you can run unsigned code. That's how someone would Port *nix or bsd onto it.

-- D3X

That wasn't the link, this is the one I was meant to post.

I like this scenario:
Microsoft sells Xbox underpriced - making a loss per each sold product. Meanwhile as the modchips have already been released, Microsoft is digging another hole for themselves: they have created the perfect platform for cheap Linux based homecomputer, again, project(s) already going. Once this evolvs into a easy-to-setup Linux home computer: voila!

Summasummarum, Microsoft's bully tactics may well prove as the ultimate bullet to their own head. They will end up loosing both because of hardware and because of lost Windows license fees. Eventually, loosing around $200 because of every sold Xbox. Thanks.