12-20-2003, 12:42 PM
the Xbox is soo much like a PC.. you don't even know it.. i could go into all the details about it but you just like through specs around about the processor.. it don't matter the processor speeds.. If you want to know all your games that you are playing on are running on a Stripped down Win2k kernal and using DirectX as its graphics system just Optimized for Exact hardware thats in the Xbox.. and they tried locking the system to run Signed Xbe's only.. It is a full fledged PC once you remove microsoft's restrictions.. They have even showed that they where wrong to do what they did.. Because they are looking at there next gen system to NOT be like a PC... And guess what 90% of those games you mentioned i would never even touch.. Half life 2 can be put on any system.. But guess what.. Its not that they can't handle it.. But it EASY to port it over to the Xbox since guess what. Its using DirectX so why waste the time in development to go to GC or ps2 when you have to learn how to program for those systems.. the Xbox is nothing more then a PC that M$ is putting in a box and trying to call it a Console which it is not.. Especially when i can plug it into my ADSL connection and start running website/ftp server ssh shell, cvs server etc.. i can turn it into a development site for IA if i want.. can i do that either any of the others? possibly Sony but not as easy.. there is a ps2 linux distro that sony helped work out to get working on there system.. but not as easily as Xbox.. since all that was needed was a filesystem driver and xpad and video output drivers..
and 1 more point that its a pc.. guess what technology they use for there controllers? USB.. your controller you use is a USB Hub and the memory cards are just USB memory card.. if you make a cable you can hook them up to the computer and use them like every other usb memory stick there is..
I think i will end this discussion because you can not tell me that the Xbox is not a PC.. because it is.. Just in a smaller black box then what you normally see and just doesn't have all the com port hook up thats you are used to there.. but the Arch is all there..
P.S. Size does matter.. I am in the Miltiary and i sometimes travel all over the place.. as right now i am in Iraq.. and the xbox is one heavy thing to Lug around.. the ps2 and gamecube are much nicer in this aspect. The only reason i did bring my Xbox is because i put a 300 gig harddrive and its loaded with movies and mp3's and tons and tons of emulators to play.. nothign for which M$ intended it to be used for..
and 1 more point that its a pc.. guess what technology they use for there controllers? USB.. your controller you use is a USB Hub and the memory cards are just USB memory card.. if you make a cable you can hook them up to the computer and use them like every other usb memory stick there is..
I think i will end this discussion because you can not tell me that the Xbox is not a PC.. because it is.. Just in a smaller black box then what you normally see and just doesn't have all the com port hook up thats you are used to there.. but the Arch is all there..
P.S. Size does matter.. I am in the Miltiary and i sometimes travel all over the place.. as right now i am in Iraq.. and the xbox is one heavy thing to Lug around.. the ps2 and gamecube are much nicer in this aspect. The only reason i did bring my Xbox is because i put a 300 gig harddrive and its loaded with movies and mp3's and tons and tons of emulators to play.. nothign for which M$ intended it to be used for..