Rumors of their demise are greatly exaggerated. I've been sitting on this one for a while... it's fully intact, but the hard drive was wiped. I'm open for ideas on restoring it, but I don't think microsoft will send me the refresh discs anymore. It's not very interesting on the inside; looks like a mac, yo. Unlike the Xbox1 alphas, i don't think there's anything custom inside. It runs OS X leopard pretty well though. This was really the last of my grails...
No, it's running OS X snow leopard at the moment. This was set aside as a 'someday' project, so I haven't looked at it very hard. Without the refresh/XeDK, there's not much I can do. Cool museum piece though.
It's a good question. According to Microsoft, this unit should be fingerprinted so that the XeDK will only install on these units, and not a standard retail unit. I don't know anyone who's tried converting one to a standard desktop and back to an alpha kit. I personally haven't done so much as check the partitions.
I can only assume. Traditionally, all of microsoft's Alpha/Beta hardware has emergency recovery provisions. This machine should be using EFI instead of a bios, and apple used a non-standard EFI implementation. Who knows what's really going on under the hood.
You're going to need the recovery discs. And assume that everything else in the machine is stock as shipped.
Man, all the old-timers are still here... sup hl.I know the full history of this unit going back to when it shipped from MS, it's all original. I spent literally years tracking down some of the items in my collection, but this one fell in my lap. I was talking to a buddy of mine, and he was asking about the launch team console i had on my desk as a trophy. I told him about what I used to do for a living, how it led to my xbox collection, and how the only thing i had left on my bucket list was a Xenon.I kid you not, he had this one sitting in his living room that his daughter used to play dora the explorer flash games on nickjr.com. When she got a new computer, he sold this one to me. He keeps asking me if i ever found the recovery discs and got it restored.I took a few more pics of the internals, but I don't have the right screwdriver to remove the CPU heat sinks.I took some internal pictures and wrote up a brief history of the project. I'll take better pictures once I have the proper tools to open 'er up.http://throwthecontroller.com/537/xbox-360-alpha-developer-kit-codename-xenon/(I don't know what happened to the formatting on this post)
He said it was wiped so maybe all the partitions are gone. A OSX based recuva program might bring up some interesting stuff.
Out of curiosity, how many of these have turned up over the years? The destruction order on these things was pretty heavy handed. The whole thing was kind of an embarrassment to microsoft.
One was on Ebay a few months ago, a couple of years ago (2005 or 2006) a forum member had one, other than those two, there's yours. The one on Ebay was missing the HDD, sold for a couple of hundred bucks.
hey folks im new and by no means clued up on xdk 360s but ive been trying google for some answers and ive landed here!! ive come into possession of 2 xenon dev kit hdwr. both boot up to xbox 360 launcher and display as flash 4548.0 xdk 5426.0.. I want to know what i can do with these, may sell one and hope to use the other but no idea how!! Doesnt play games from disk but i believe this is normal but the exe files when chosen boot up into crackdown game. It plays fine so was wandering how do i get other games onto the hard drive to run?
