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Mac OS X Running On Xbox
PasteEater writes "The good people over at XBox Scene have the scoop. Mac OS X has been successfully installed on a modified Xbox. What does this mean? Well, it's no Xbox Media Center, but it does prove that nerds are at the forefront once again!"
Hmmm now if I could only do it the other way around.
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Why torture yourself with a MacOSXbox, which actually is PearPC running on linux which is running on Xbox hardware. I am sure the performance of it is abysmal.
This is sadder than those MacOSXP (people trying to change their windows into a Mac)
Stop torturing yourself with this. Get a real mac!!
I agreed with one guy in this story about how AT&T switching to OS X would be prohibitively expensive, but it appears that AT&T found a way to get their OS on a $150 system. Good job!
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Guess what? I can also run PDP-11 software on my XBox! Or any other operating system, for that matter.
This was done through emulation. The blurb seems to imply that something incredible was accomplished, when all that was done was loading it into an emulator.
It may be pretty funny to see OSX running off an XBox on a TV, but it's hardly usable as it is. Call me when it runs natively.
It's the Georgia Tech IT department getting ready to expell a student for having it's systems /.'d You would think that /. would look at the supplied links and do some filtering when it comes to links hosted by a University. But I guess that is asking too much. I hope Ga Tech students enjoy using pencil and paper while their computer systems turn to a pile of molten metal.
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What it proves is that there are some people with some serious free-time on their hands...
There seems to be an inordinate focus on hack this, crack that, emulate the other and port an OS to the most outlandishly unlikely hardware possible. (Hey, look! I'm running OS/2 on my toaster!)
As a stunt this is really amazing.
As a project resulting in something useful, it is dubious at best.
I find myself in the same category. I'm just getting into PocketPC programming and my first thoughts are about emulators. Are we so lacking in imagination that we can't come up with any original ideas?
I guess the truth is that almost all the "low hanging fruit" has been picked, and now we must work much harder to come with an original idea. Shoulders of giants, etc, etc.
Just so I don't sound like too much of an old curmudgeon, I will say that it looks like these are students, and it is of course a great learning experience.
I fail to see the point.
The XBox hardware is dated now, anyway. You could probably buy all of the components and build yourself an XBox-equivalent PC for about the same price (P3 processor.. GeForce3.. 10GB HD.. not too expensive, nowadays..)
Now, if PearPC would work at decent speeds on recent hardware.. THEN I'd be impressed (I've always wanted to try out OSX, but I'm not going to spend thousands to buy a Mac..)
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Because the screen on the XBox on displays at 640x480. It's not obscured. Look at the menu bar.
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Actually that much money can get you a low-end G4 desktop (search on eBay for "sawtooth 450MHz"; I sold mine for about $350) that's fast enough for everyday use, games, etc.
> It's much harder to emulate RISC (PowerPC) on a CISC (x86) than the other way around. Hence, VirtualPC runs better on a Mac than PearPC runs on a PC.
Hahaha. Oh please, CISC/RISC are old 90's buzzwords. The REAL reason why running a PPC on an x86 is harder than the opposite is that emulating a target CPU with more registers than the host occurs a serious performance penalty because you constantly have to swap register values to compensate.
Games run just fine on Mac OS X and modern Macs have plenty good hardware for casual gamers (the iMac) or serious gamers (PowerMac G5). Apple even has a website devoted to gaming. Most modern games are released for Mac OS X as well as Windows. Your argument is SOOOOOO 1996.
http://www.apple.com/games
can emulate any other computer.
We have known this for over half a century.
It's been done and but I wonder if it was worthwhile distraction from doing real work.
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"Wonder what M$ thinks is a bigger threat - Linux or OS X on the Xbox..."
I doubt one is worse than the other in their view. They want people to buy games for the machine, not bend over backwards to make it some sort of PC.
MS's moves to stop putting Linux on these machines has little to do with trying to supress it, rather they don't want to be footing the losses over it. I mean, let's be serious, if MS was making a profit on the XBOX systems, would they really be threatened by using Linux on it? Hardly. It's too isolated.
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There's no ROM of that kind in Macs anymore. That's the difference between New World Rom (original iMac and newer) and Old World Rom Macs. It's all in OpenFirmware now. And the barrier now is legal. You're not (techncially) allowed to install MacOS on anything Apple didn't make. They're not going to press it with some college students screwing around, but they probably would if someone started selling unlicensed clones.
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