ASSEMblergames: Xbox Alpha II tower ! Debug, XDK, Green Discs and Art ! Prototype xbo

Nice i like the debug console box
i have a debug kit and not the xdk could you take pictures thanks.

 

Finally, an xbox video.

 

hey what camra did you use?

i like the alpha dev kit for the xbox

that means you could probably flash a retail bios on it and use it to play retail games xD

 

Just for reference, an Alpha I badge :

 

Its not that easy to build one, someone tried

 

yah you still need at the very least a dev/debug kit bios or a retail xbox bios dump assuming the components are all the same to the letter

 

Retail Xbox is totally different, as are debug bios. You need specific stuff. And even then, it doesn't work quite that easily.

Google "how to build an alpha xbox" and you can see the kind of work that is required.

 

i didnt say it was easy i just said it was possible

also they use the same chipset and CPU dev/debug and retail to it is possible just not easy remember the xbox is made from off the shelf parts and people have installed xp onto the damn things xD

 

Ummm, wrong... Alpha kit is completely different.

 

People have NEVER installed Windows XP onto an Xbox natively. It is NOT made from simply off the shelf parts, if that were the case people would have been able to do even more with it. Its not far from it in most cases, but even the slightest modification meant that its not off the shelf. And the Alpha is totally different hardware (and software for that matter).

 

Alpha kits are prototypes smart guy also the xbox from the start always used an intel CPU usually a pIII. celarons are just re-badged pIII's

it may of been customized but its still the old workhorse the pIII

 

Haha, a friendly word of advise, please do some research before being the 'smart guy'

Oh wait a minute, I forgot the processor is a processor, my PC is basically an Xbox!!! :banghead:

EDIT: just tried, my PC doesn't play Xbox games. You must be telling me lies!

 

Seriously, the Alpha is completely different, Dano2k0 is totally correct. This coming from someone who actually OWNS and Alpha kit, with software, which, surprise, doesnt run on retail or debug hardware.

 

I'm in the same boat as you Borman. :thumbsup:

 

how strate from the horuces mouth for resurch

ever hear of the history of the xbox it aired on G4tv

in the interview with a MS employee who worked on the xbox from the start
said it was off the shelf parts and its well knowen the xbox uses a pIII

and the kit that assembler just showed us he says its an intel cpu
slot based pIII

 

angelworlf, you are completely missing the point.

We know what the Alpha consits of, it is adapted parts for the most part.

The DVT3 and DVT4 / final hardware is nothing like the Alpha which you refered to as being alike?

 

And EVEN STILL, the Alpha kit isnt off the shelf hardware. It has been modified for the job. Read the link I posted in detail. It required hardware and software mods to get it to do anything. If that is off the shelf, then I must have missed the memo.

 

they ARE alike they use off the shellf chipsets and cpu's

the only thing that separates them really is the bios/os and some securaty that makes the bios incompatable with dev and retail.. but that dosnt mean it cant be done its doable just not easy