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offline x0hx from Lysdexia (United States) on 2004-10-08 17:33 [#01357447]
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I didn't know it was po-seeb-leh:
Instructions Here

Thanks, Hack-A-Day
Great site, BTW
I especially like "Make your own Ramjet Engine".

 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2004-10-08 17:58 [#01357449]
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OSX on a microsoft machine?

holy mackeral

 

offline x0hx from Lysdexia (United States) on 2004-10-08 20:41 [#01357520]
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Yeah, but I'm wondering if it's (OSX) running on top of an
emlulator that the specialised distro. of Linux that they
speak of is running??
To my knowledge, you can't run OSX on an x86 machine w/o the
use of an emulator?


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-10-08 20:43 [#01357521]
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i've also heard of people running Linux on an X box

 

offline x0hx from Lysdexia (United States) on 2004-10-08 20:49 [#01357527]
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Mmm hmm?
And PS2's. Yes.

 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2004-10-08 21:12 [#01357535]
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and on my microwave oven!
Attached picture

 

offline x0hx from Lysdexia (United States) on 2004-10-08 21:19 [#01357537]
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So I'm taking it you don't care about this thread with your
poo-flinging then?
Anyways.
I found out how it's possible for it to run on the ol' P3.
During the install, you have to use a -cpu generic option
for it to work. So that means it's not optimised for x86,
obviously. I'm just really surprised it even *does* work.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-10-08 22:45 [#01357563]
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It uses PearPC, the x86 PPC emulator, on top of Linux. It's
goddamn stupidly slow enough, ignoring the fact the Xbox
only has 64MB ram (and PearPC provides 128MB, so it's going
to be swapping like shit to the hard drive).

This wouldn't even be usable. It'd probably take like an
hour to boot up :-(


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2004-10-09 04:26 [#01357662]
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PearPC also has to do Big Endian to Little Endian conversion
and vice-versa in software mode (instead of on-chip
conversion like the real PowerPC chips do) which means that
you'll be lucky to run OS X at clock speeds exceeding 10MHz
- and even then that's on a wazooo PC machine.


 

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