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Hackers Happily Hacking The 360

Posted by Zonk on from the learning-new-things dept.

m3lt writes "Hackers have purchased the XBox 360 so they will have generation 1 models, which are more prone to security flaws. At hackaday there is an article about Xbox 360 First Impressions. More importantly though, it looks as if homebrew browsers are already showing up for the Xbox 360." Additionally, geekylinuxkid writes "It looks like another bounty is being offered for linux on a console. This time it is for the xbox 360 and is provided by the guys at free360.org. Join in, donate, and contribute to the community."

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  1. Re:Early adoption by MorgyTheMole · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, all of the FAST emulators tend to use assembly and have assembly cores. However, there are plenty of emulators for most systems out there with all C or C++ cores. I think that the 360 should run most of these emulators just fine, given it's speed. What will be more interesting to see is how homebrew apps try to take advantage of the ability to run six 3.2 Ghz threads at once.

  2. Fair Use by Chayak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm certain it will violate the EULA for the 360 but they don't hold much legal power anymore as fair use allows you freedom to do what you want with your machine. I know more than a few people who considered it an evil act to mod my old Xbox and PS2, but I'm very well within my legal right to do so.

  3. Re:Early adoption by dwandy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The cost is a bit high, in my opinion, and there's really no indication that there will be a good selection of homebrew apps for it.

    Depends on how you count cost.
    The shop where I work paid many times more for each CPU in our servers than the entire 3-cpu xbox retails for ... the admins tell me that it's the same cpu...
    I suspect that there will be some good efforts into clustering these things -- they are sold below hardware cost!

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  4. Isn't Homebrew Encouraged? by Deathlizard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought that this was the entire reason MS made the Xbox Marketplace, So that independent Dev's could make a game/program and sell it over Xbox live.

    What's stopping any Dev from making a NES emulator for example, and selling it on the marketplace for 100 points? Is there restrictions on what you can and cannot sell on the marketplace?

    I know linux is a different story, since it's an OS replacement, but I don't see any reason why the Mozilla Foundation for example couldn't make a 360 port of Firefox and sell it for the points equivalent of $0.25 over Xbox Live.

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    1. Re:Isn't Homebrew Encouraged? by blincoln · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I know linux is a different story, since it's an OS replacement, but I don't see any reason why the Mozilla Foundation for example couldn't make a 360 port of Firefox and sell it for the points equivalent of $0.25 over Xbox Live.

      Where are they going to get the 360 dev kit and development license? That kind of thing tends to be really expensive. Not to mention the signing issue brought up by another poster.

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