30 Oct
2002
30 Oct
'02
8:10 p.m.
Could someone do something to make the need for this hardware disappear
and save the world of people who love proprietrary video game consoles?
There is already a tool that converts xpe files into exe. Only the bios
and the improved DirectX must be re-engineered and the rest will be done
by a Geforce4 (or 5) and a 2Ghz CPU.
31 Oct
31 Oct
12:04 a.m.
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:10, Dirk wrote:
Could someone do something to make the need for this
hardware disappear
and save the world of people who love proprietrary video game consoles?
There is already a tool that converts xpe files into exe. Only the bios
and the improved DirectX must be re-engineered and the rest will be done
by a Geforce4 (or 5) and a 2Ghz CPU.
I'm sure an Xbox emulator will eventually come along, assuming there
aren't a few already in the works; they, however, under Linux at least,
would have to implement DirectX calls; it would be interesting to
frequently contact those developers as they would face many of the same
issues of implementing DirectX as the newly formed Wine DX group will. I
don't know of any emulators that support Xbox architecture, but I don't
think wine should be the project to do so, not unless an Xbox game runs
under (normal) Windows.
--
Chris Thielen <chris(a)luethy.net>
2:30 p.m.
Op donderdag 31 oktober 2002 01:04, schreef Chris Thielen:
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:10, Dirk wrote:
Xbox apps run on a minimal version of the Windows 2000 kernel.
Could someone do something to make the need for
this hardware disappear
and save the world of people who love proprietrary video game consoles?
There is already a tool that converts xpe files into exe. Only the bios
and the improved DirectX must be re-engineered and the rest will be done
by a Geforce4 (or 5) and a 2Ghz CPU.
I'm sure an Xbox emulator will eventually come along, assuming there
aren't a few already in the works; they, however, under Linux at least,
would have to implement DirectX calls; it would be interesting to
frequently contact those developers as they would face many of the same
issues of implementing DirectX as the newly formed Wine DX group will. I
don't know of any emulators that support Xbox architecture, but I don't
think wine should be the project to do so, not unless an Xbox game runs
under (normal) Windows. 
8:59 p.m.
On 30 Oct 2002, Chris Thielen wrote:
[...]
I'm sure an Xbox emulator will eventually come
along, assuming there
aren't a few already in the works; they, however, under Linux at least,
would have to implement DirectX calls; it would be interesting to
frequently contact those developers as they would face many of the same
issues of implementing DirectX as the newly formed Wine DX group will. I
don't know of any emulators that support Xbox architecture, but I don't
think wine should be the project to do so, not unless an Xbox game runs
under (normal) Windows.
I thought that the XBox was basically a stripped down version of the
Win32 API + DirectX + some hardware and software modifications to make
XBox games incompatible with regular Windows. I also thought one of
Microsoft's goals was to lure PC game programmers to the XBox by making
it very similar to writing games for a PC.
So it seems like Wine would contain 90% of what's needed to make an XBox
emulator (for Unix), thus making it a good starting place. Same as Wine
would be a good starting place to write a WinCE emulator.
Of course I don't have (and probably will never have) and XBox and have
never programmed a game for the XBox so maybe others know better?
--
Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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