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    1ste "Homebrew" gespot voor de 360

    Nuja, soort van.. Was een beetje sceptisch toen ik het las, kon makkelijk fake zijn. Videokaart naar tv. Vooral omdat ie zei dat de games runnen. Maar iemand anders melde dat ie ook rss feeds op zen beeld getoverd kreeg. Dat maakt t allemaal wel geloofwaardiger. Ook omdat je duidelijk het live logo in beeld krijgt. Ben benieuwd welke opties hier nog door zullen vrijkomen.

    Van de vinder:

    I was messing around with the Media Extender interface on the X360, and noticed that the "More Programs" linked to a couple of apps installed on my PC as part of the Media Center Package, including MS Instant Messenger and some other stuff. All of these run when you access them from the 360 Media Extender client. The 360 essentially seems to act as a dumb terminal, interfacing with the application running on the PC.

    Here's where things really get interesting: It's apparently very easy to integrate Windows applications into the MCE "More Programs" tab. All you have to do is build a link in a format specified by MS and do some minor optimization, and the app will run in MCE. Here is how MS describes the process of building games for MCE: http://msdn.MS.com/library/default....vgameswinmc.asp
    So I downloaded a couple of apps and installed them on MCE, switched over to the 360, and lo and behold, most of them run perfectly. I was able to run apps with modified browsers to pull down news stories, stock quotes, sports scores etc., as well as several Internet Radio clients.

    I also tried installing a couple of shareware games, including a Tetris clone and some card games. Interestingly, they all launch on the 360, but crash soon afterwards. My guess is that you could get them to run with some optimization. There even is a MAME emu for MCE out there, though I haven't tried to install it.

    My guess is that it will be difficult to get anything other than the simplest games to run in real time using the interface, due to lag in response times. But I would think getting so,ething like a full web browser up and running should be achievable.

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    En deze van iem anders:

    http://www.thundercityllc.info/xbox360/xbox360
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    En hier een link naar de plugins. Werkt enkel alleen als je media center edition hebt (Miss toch achterpoortje van ms zelf om zo hun mce te verkopen?)

    http://www.windowmarketplace.com/Results.aspx?collID=96

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