Xenon Development Kit

**DONATION REACHED**

Greetings! For years the Xbox 360 Alpha Development Hardware was cloaked in secrecy, details about this piece of hardware were scarce, and only a handful of pictures existed, much less of the XenonOS itself. Team XeCanada is proud to announce that we have obtained and analyzed a hard drive image from a working Xenon Development Kit. Hey, we’ve been on this project over the last few months working out all the kinks. Now, we can finally look forward to a release of XenonOS. This hard drive image will give people the ability to create their own alpha hardware and restore genuine kits which were long shoved aside. With your help, we plan to raise the funds (650usd) to recuperate the cost of the hard drive image, and project a Christmas/NYE release. Linked below is the Wiki containing everything involved with extensive detail, as well as a link to the fundraiser itself.

Credits go out to the following for their contribution to the project

AlphaDisruptor/Alpha (Wiki and extensive hardware testing, 1st working kit)

Demon (Wiki creation, information submission)

Bowser22/Xe (Obtaining hard drive image, hardware testing)

Borman (Hardware testing)

Yubi (Software analysis)

CodeAsm (Software analysis)

Gunz4Hire/Shadha (Information submission)

Yasen (Information submission)

*Recovery 2.0.1529.0 (Internal)*


https://www.xenonwiki.com/

 

If anyone has any questions regarding hardware then I can help with answering them.

 

Setup process sounds like some wild stuff. Cool though!

I'll stick to XeDK's

 

very nice

 

Strange that it shows .exe, .xbe and xex files, do all of these launch on the kit?

 

Yes. Original xbox .xbe's run as well as .xex and .exe.

Even retail .xbe's run fine.

 

Very quickly tossed together a video.

 

Back to the top, pushing out all the drama threads here guys. Let’s get some hardware appreciation going ! Fuck servers and shadowboot

 

Did they change the font of XENON LAUNCHER?, maybe it's just missing and displaying the system font instead? I noticed the XENON LAUNCHER would change if you switched languages.

EDIT: Looking at pictures of 1838 on the Beta kits and it still has the XENON font, so this is odd.

 

https://www.xenonwiki.com/

 

https://www.xenonwiki.com/

 

Was 1529 resurrected from a data recovery or is 1529 from an untouched drive running XenonOS?

 

https://www.xenonwiki.com/

 

Can't ask questions there can you? I didn't see anything about:

 

The font isn't missing. It just doesn't load on the first boot of the kit. That picture in the OP was taken just after a fresh install.

 

Maybe they changed it in 1529 and went back to the old design in 1838.

 

No they didn't. Both use the xenon font.

 

The color is different and there are differences in the font, one being the letter N for starters. It could just be a resolution or regional setting or maybe it needs another reboot?

 

Here is a picture for comparison from the xenonwiki.

 

It uses the same font/color between 1529 and 1838. My kit is running DVI to VGA 480p/720p to a 1440p widescreen monitor which causes some stretching issues.

Considering that pic is one of your Alpha kits running an earlier recovery then maybe you should check it to see if lighting was causing the different color in the picture.

EDIT: Comparison when removing the stretch in my picture