Alpha Xbox XDK Recovery and SDK : May 2001 3521.1

This file is for alpha development kits ONLY. It should not run on your beta or retail kits, but even if it did, it wouldn't work.

These files are backed up from my personal disks, and have been verified to work fine. The dumps are all 1:1, and of course include the boot sector needed to actually boot the files on the alpha development kits. Tons of early samples are included, and early tools like xbexplorer, which should help your fiddling, especially if you are looking to make your own alpha kit.

You can find video of it in action here : http://ptoponline.com/?p=573

Download from MEGA

Feel free to thank kl0wn as well!

 

Awesome!! thanks to both Borman & kl0wn!

 

FYI, this ran on my "Alpha like" hardware without any hardware or software Hacks. P3, VC820 Motherboard, 128mb of memory and a NV20 Geforce 3 Ti 200

 

tracking down visual c++ pro and sp4 for it was abit difficult but i did manage to get the whole sdk set up in a win 2k vm, now just to build the franken alpha

 

Sweet, Thx Kl0wn and Borman
Ill check when im back, im in the search for a 360 dev right now lol.

 

hay just wonted to know if any one out there has a torrent of this? my net keeps crashing when trying to download form mega

 

Yes, works on my "Franken ALpha" aswell. Need an USB card and controller to actually do anything

 

Let me know if you find it, if your talking about the G5 recovery discs, I'm looking as well

 

I know this is gravedigging mate (sorry) but recently aquired an Alpha 1 Kit. It has a recovery and works wonderful but I would like this just in case, so thank you, but would it work for an a
Alpha 1? I know the most common are Alpha 2 Kits.

 

Yes. Just attach another HDD when tinkering with different recovery versions & games. Alpha 1 to 2's were just CPU and video card upgrades and some added the missing sound cards. You may have an Alpha I that was already upgraded to Alpha II specs.

 

not sure how long this will be available: SP4
ftp://ftp.uni-rostock.de/pub/tools/microsoft/ServicePacks/VisualTools/us/SP4/
and the visual studio (enterprise or others, and MSDN)
https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-visual-stu/60
And to make Vtune from Intel run, simply set back the year to 2000 orsomething.

 

Thought this was for Alpha Mac G5 kits for a second!

 

Any chance you still have the SP4 ? I tryed SP6 but the SDK dont like it

 

All those links still work that CodeAsm posted. Easier to use an FTP client for anonymous FTP DL of all the SP4 files.

Update:
Not sure why the ftp link has http:// added to it as the link looks correct when hovering over it but once clicked on it becomes: http://ftp//ftp.uni-rostock.de/pub/tools/microsoft/ServicePacks/VisualTools/us/SP4/ should be
ftp://ftp.uni-rostock.de/pub/tools/microsoft/ServicePacks/VisualTools/us/SP4/

 

Hey @Borman , is there a trick to ripping some of these recovery discs? I've just been throwing them into ImgBurn and ripping the iso, but I'm finding that I'm ending up with "Image.iso" files that are full hundreds of megs of data, but apparently missing some key piece of data because when I open them in an iso viewer like winrar, they appear as empty archives.

The XDK discs rip perfectly fine.

 

No trick. Use poweriso to open them.

 

Ah, nice. PowerISO can see the files even though winrar couldn't. Really glad I don't have to dig up all those discs again. I have XDK and Recovery discs from December 2000 through August 2001.

Thanks, @Borman. You're a hero.