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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:22 pm 
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ON an XBOX
Holy Shot this is cool
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ranma1/mac_install.html


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:37 pm 
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Well I knew about it. Its probibly not that procatincal though.

I mean is your (as far as I gathered form reading a howto about it) emulating PPC processor on a X86. Alsd the Xbox has only 64mb memory, thats bare minumum for running OS X.

I wont knock thats its cool, you can then remove the "X" and put an "i" spray paint it silver add an apple jewel and you'll have your own iBox that runs OS X. But your not going to be about to make good use of it as a result of harware limitations.

P.S. I know you can upgrade the Ram to 128mb but the real question is do you know where to find the right ram chips and does the OS X patch for the Xbox support that addon? I'm saying becuse linux offers that but you need to unstall a patch to be sure it works otherwise it wont boot.

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Lol, iBox... Anyway, that looks pretty cool. Also check http://www.xbox-linux.org/Upgrading_Xbox_RAM_HOWTO for suppliers of those ram chips... (scroll down to the bottom.)

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10 hour install! Geez, reminds me of loading OS/2 from floppies on a 4mb 386sx pile.


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10 hour install! Geez, reminds me of loading OS/2 from floppies on a 4mb 386sx pile.


Or updating 103 packages for Fedora Core (1), I stared like 13, 14 hours ago and its just now finishing installation.

Gees thats great to get that out now.

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or the original linux. I found the 5 1/4" floppy in my dads c;loset. Been trying to load it on my 386 for hours :roll:


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or the original linux. I found the 5 1/4" floppy in my dads c;loset. Been trying to load it on my 386 for hours :roll:


Sounds odd you'd want a 5 1/4" floppy, they dont even hold 1mb and are horrificly slow. Why not make a stealth drive from the face plate?

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or the original linux. I found the 5 1/4" floppy in my dads c;loset. Been trying to load it on my 386 for hours :roll:


Sounds odd you'd want a 5 1/4" floppy, they dont even hold 1mb and are horrificly slow. Why not make a stealth drive from the face plate?


the high density ones (like I'd imagine it is) hold 1.2MB, you know.

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Holy crap he could like backup like 20 text files on one of those disks! Anyways its just kind of pointless having one in you system unless by some strange turn of events he wants to use the original disks for an Atari/Commodore emulator.

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what do you mean. I need it. I even have one in my new 1ghz computer. I have all my dads old games and programs from college. Great for stornig stuff and easy to dstroy just in case :wink:


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Yeah, if there was a way to get and connect even an 8" Floppy Drive to a modern box, I would.

I must have 100-200 8" disks lying around...several of them have ISIS-II and even Altar 8086. O.o

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ye, ive seen that, i thought it was pretty cool (i told my friend T.y. about it, we much rather mac then windows) the thing is, the reason there are windows emulators for mac and no mac emulators for pc is that a pc doesnt have good enuf specs to run mac... so i dont think it wud run to well on xbox would it?

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The reason there are no Mac emulators (atleast OS X) is your using a competely different CPU (64bit) as compared to a standard Pentium, the thing with the Xbox is as they have a section yo name "PPC" its likely emulating the whole thing.

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Not all Macs have 64-bit CPUs, only the PowerMac G5 and iMac G5 do (because they use the 64-bit G5 processor :P) OS X will run just fine on a 32-bit G4 or even G3 processor. It's that it's a PowerPC not and Intel or AMD that makes it hard to emulate, although there are some out there.

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yup, g5s are the first 64bit processors... i would know me and my friend T.y. went crazy when we saw the advirt. on apple.ca for the g5 coming out soon... he got one when they came out... yummy fast... so i use the g4 now =P

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