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New Xbox Titles Through 2007
Despite the fact that the next generation of the Xbox console is expected out before the end of the year, via Evil Avatar a story stating that Microsoft is committed to the original Xbox through 2007. From the article: "A Microsoft spokeswoman told Reuters that 2007 is not a hard stop, but rather a guideline for the last releases of new games developed for the Xbox. Microsoft has not said whether its next console will be compatible with the current Xbox."
well.. if you install linux on the baby.. why wouldn't you have java on the spot already _now_?(and without a real os at the back of things.. why would you want java anyways?)
the big problem with legal xbox development is that you can't get it to run on the xbox without modding it.
but looking on the bright side.. the current xboxes will be able to play nes games and other such emulators conviently to the foreseeable future way past the official lifespan of the xbox.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
As a well-trainer xbox hacker, Gentoo Linux PC user, GentooX (Gentoo on Xbox) user, and Java developer, I believe I can speak with some merit here... :)
.Jar by booting a very minimalistic linux system with only the kernel, X server, alsa, network daemons, and JVM in memory.
"the big problem with legal xbox development is that you can't get it to run on the xbox without modding it."
Actually, there are many "soft-mod" exploits in games such as MechAssault and 007: Agent Under Fire which allow you to boot unsigned code and ultimately flash your TSOP and EEPROM with a third party BIOS.
Running GentooX for only interpreted code is really not worth it since an Xbox only has 64MB of RAM and a 733mhz Intel processor out of the box. A GentooX system would not only have to maintain the overhead of the interpreted language's runtime application, but also the WindowManager, its widget set, and any system services running such as apache, proftpd, smbd, webmin, and the system logging mechanism.
Also, if you launch an Xbox distro from your dashboard, the linux kernel will need to use a virtual loopback device to mount the root partition. Because this is a loopback and not a physical extended partition, this also will cause a performance hit.
If it were up to me to port a JRE to the Xbox, I'd probably write a menu launcher with a Xromwell backend that would execute a
I think it's not a bad idea, I mean yeah who wants to play old school xbox when you can play the brand new super cool xbox 2! but they're some people who like to play old games on their new system. This may cause them not to 'mod' their xbox 2 or whatever, it's like "oh damn! I can't play halo/halo2 on my xbox 2...this sucks!"