Xbox 360 OS on PC?

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Vadamo

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Now the reason I think this is because the Ram is low on a 360 (512mbs of ram) and I heard that all games are on low with the 360. Is there any emulator and anyway to take all my hardware and dedicate it for just those games? Links? and is there any emulators. Id be fine to run it in virtual box.

Any chance of XBL with it?

Thanks in advance
 
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Again, they are hardware optimized / ported for a specific instruction set / hardware. So no. You would get extremely laggy and low FPS *if* you were even able to get it running.

Basically you are asking to run an old version of MAC OS on a new intel pc. (PPC vs x86 instruction set)
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I don't know about emulator's.

But...

Simply said, no. There is no way to run xbox OS natively on a PC.

There are a ton of hardware verification checks built into the OS.

On top of that, it is not an x86 executable, since it was written to run on the G5 processors that the xbox uses.
 
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What about games, could I run the games it plays? I expect it would run smooth with a good fps since its on low.
 
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Again, they are hardware optimized / ported for a specific instruction set / hardware. So no. You would get extremely laggy and low FPS *if* you were even able to get it running.

Basically you are asking to run an old version of MAC OS on a new intel pc. (PPC vs x86 instruction set)
 
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The hardware checks are the only real issue with the OS being incompatible. The original xbox ran with an nvidia GeForce GPU around a 3.5 or so Post GeForce 2 and pre GeForce 4 with a broadcom? network chip and an INTEL x86 Celeron or Pentium III @ 733MHz the 360 also uses a x86 possibly x64 based Intel CPU P4 or core 2 at 2.x GHz I believe and mostly computer style hardware there isn't much in the way of system incompatibility with the actual running of the OS aside from the built in checks to make sure the hardware is in the list of stuff that's actually in the xbox.. the original and 360 are pretty much small pc's in a console case there isn't that much difference in hardware really.. and it should be possible to port the OS to a real actual PC you'd just have to have the code remove the ms hardware checks for bios/whatever other things it checks and add in support for the PC hardware commonly used (intel/broadcom/realtek nics and nvidia/amd gpus and possibly amd cpus as well and realtek/creative sound chips) but the code is private and I'm sure MS has a tight grip on. So the chances of actually having this be a reality are pretty much nill. Emulators should actually be pretty straight forward don't know why there isn't a good working one available since the hardware is pretty much the same as a PC and you wouldn't have to emulate the CPU as the CPU in the original and 360 are actual PC processors and the sound, network and video could just use a translation layer to be able to communicate with the HAL in windows and translate it to what the Xbox OS expects to see and from what the xbox os tells it to do and what windows does with it. The original runs on a stripped and custom version of windows 2000 and I think the 360 is using a very custom variant of XP media Center Edition.
 
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Ok 1) This thread is A YEAR OLD! 2) did you not read the other post?? Its NOT a Intel/AMD CPU or a Nvidia Graphics card.

Its a specially designed IBM Power PC CPU (Which is what was used in the old Macs until they switched to Intel back in like 06) So NO it won't work. Totally didn't type of CPU. Its like with Mac when they switched to Intel. They had to make two sepeate versions of a lot of their software like Adobe and OSX and everything because they were coded differently for Intel and PPC.

The GPU was a Speically made by ATI and not Nvidia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_(graphics_chip)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)
 
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1) OLD thread

2) The hardware is just too different. They would have to recode the ENTIRE OS in order to do this. It is like getting a Mac that runs on a Power PC Chip from 10 years ago which had no chance in hell on running on an Intel CPU, taking the OS, rebuilding from the ground up which could take a group of programs years to do.

I mean it took microsoft over a year to allow 360 games to run on the Xbox One and they have the money and know how to do it. Why is it that a big deal? Again 360 runs on a Power PC Chip the Xbox Ones runs off a AMD x86 chip so coding and emulating it is a big issues. Sony however took a different approach. They stream the game to you. They took the easy route, with Microsoft you actually run the games on the XBone.
 
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