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You dont.
I know it's really early to be talking about this but we (homebrew)hacked the XBOX 360! YAY!.. Looking at this, it's still kinda hard to perform the hack.

http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/...UVvULE.php

Hopefully we will soon have some sort of solder less solution for noobs like me to do this in the future.

I was thinking you the brain heads behind the XBMC would be able to replicate the hack and start unleashing the 360's power. Obviously there still is barriers to overcome..

There's the possibility that home brew will never catch on because the hack is too hard to perform on the XBOX 360 by a noob...

You, the developers must actually get the hack, with very primitive instructions, to work...

And XBMC is built on the X86 architecture that the original XBOX had not the powerpc which the 360 has...

Here's my rebuttal.

XBMC started the home brew revolution, not to mention the HTPC revolution. If you showed a working demo of XBMC on the 360, every chip developer from infectus to team xecuter will working their asses off to mainstream the hack for everyone. Not to mention some members, as I understand it, are already porting XBMC to the powerpc architecture... PLEASE JUST GET XBMC ON THE 360 SO THE HOMEBREW SCENE CAN MOVE FORWARD!
I suspect you will find your answer here: http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=40236
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I just realized two things:

This hack is pretty old

and

MS could close this hole...

Does anyone know if MS plugged this hole?
I'm just looking to know if there are any groups around working on getting XBMC to work with the XBOX 360?

If any groups feel they may have success within a years time I may purchase an XBOX 360, otherwise I'm going to go with a 1.3 XBOX or something.

So yea, I just want to know if there's any groups working on the problem now and if there's a website to keep track of their progress directly.

Thanks-
In that case, are there any projects to take over XBMC's spot for future console and hardware?

I came across this, supposedly pioneered by one of the original XBMC hackers;
http://xbox.joystiq.com/2006/02/12/xbmc-...scode-360/
http://runtime360.com - to get Divx/Xvid playback on the XBOX 360, but that won't be enough...

From the research I've done so far it seems clear that XBMC will fall in to the shadows with older consoles unless XBMC releases a new version heading a new project based on hacks of the new console systems.

I'll have to keep an eye out, looks like it might not be too much longer before the demand for hacks rise, might be some interesting times in modding again - I'd like to see XBMC keep up but it doesn't sound like the team is willing so naturally they will be selected out of the spotlight in time. >:]

http://www.xbox360-hacks.com
lolwat Wrote:From the research I've done so far it seems clear that XBMC will fall in to the shadows with older consoles unless XBMC releases a new version heading a new project based on hacks of the new console systems.

I'll have to keep an eye out, looks like it might not be too much longer before the demand for hacks rise, might be some interesting times in modding again - I'd like to see XBMC keep up but it doesn't sound like the team is willing so naturally they will be selected out of the spotlight in time. >:]

Really?

http://xbmc.org/download/
LolLaugh
well, it has been done...

http://www.cygnos360.com/news.htm

its running :-)
... exactly as crappy as we have said all the time
well, still some work to do.

since AMD released some documentation about R500 & R600 GPUs, maybe openGL is not too far away now...
here's to hoping. i doubt it will happen before the hw is outdated though
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