Something that everyone here needs to keep in mind is that he XBox demos at E3 were not running on actual XBox hardware. All of the demos at the show, including 3rd party booths like Activision, Konami, Etc. were running on the XBox Development Kit - Alpha II.
The Alpha II version of the XBox Development Kit is basically a PC. It's a big ugly silver mid-tower case, with a P!!! 733, 128MB, Alpha XBox GPU(GeForce3), 20GB HDD, DVD-ROM, and a PCI card with the XBox controller ports on it. And it runs the XBox System Software, which is basically the embedded NT (XP) Kernal with a integrated DirectX layer, and an ugly green & black UI. And Microsoft charges a ridiculous price for it (~$10k) .
The games were running off of the hard drive, with an Applied Microsystems DVD Emulator. There are no production XBox's out there. Microsoft couldn't show the real XBox in action if they wanted to.
If you would like more info on the XBox Development Kit check out this link:
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Something that everyone here needs to keep in mind is that he XBox demos at E3 were not running on actual XBox hardware. All of the demos at the show, including 3rd party booths like Activision, Konami, Etc. were running on the XBox Development Kit - Alpha II.
The Alpha II version of the XBox Development Kit is basically a PC. It's a big ugly silver mid-tower case, with a P!!! 733, 128MB, Alpha XBox GPU(GeForce3), 20GB HDD, DVD-ROM, and a PCI card with the XBox controller ports on it. And it runs the XBox System Software, which is basically the embedded NT (XP) Kernal with a integrated DirectX layer, and an ugly green & black UI. And Microsoft charges a ridiculous price for it (~$10k) .
The games were running off of the hard drive, with an Applied Microsystems DVD Emulator. There are no production XBox's out there. Microsoft couldn't show the real XBox in action if they wanted to.
If you would like more info on the XBox Development Kit check out this link:
http://www.coremagazine.com/news/3995.php3