How long till someone hacks OS X to run on XBox 360?

[UNCjigga]

If it ever happened (not sure how likely but someone with an X360 dev kit could probably figure it out) it would totally kill Mac mini sales!

 

[BW86]

How long till someone hacks OS X to run on XBox 360?

Lets wait until the console actually comes out first

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
If it ever happened (not sure how likely but someone with an X360 dev kit could probably figure it out) it would totally kill Mac mini sales!

Wow! Never thought of that, but sounds intriguing!

 

[SynthDude2001]

I'd buy one...

 

[Malak]

How could you hack a microsoft console to run an OS that doesn't run on PC's, let alone consoles? :roll:

 

[spherrod]

I think it will prove far too difficult to be worth doing to be honest

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: KruptosAngelos
How could you hack a microsoft console to run an OS that doesn't run on PC's, let alone consoles? :roll:

The Xbox 360 is based on the Power PC, not on the intel architecture. So go roll your eyes somewhere else

 

[chcarnage]

Microsoft hacked the Powermacs to run a modified Windows NT, so i don't think the X-Box 360 is going to boot Mac OS X in the near future...

 

[drag]

Not going to happen.

It may be possible, but it's extremely unlikely that anybody would put the time and effort into something that would be so completley worthless. It would be so illegal in a dozen different ways, and technically challenging.

If you want OS X just by a Apple computer.

A GameCube is PowerPC, as is dozens of other machines that you probably come into contact with in your day-to-day activities.. nobody hacked OS X to run on those.

 

[bersl2]

Doesn't OSX whitelist Apple hardware and reject everything else?

 

[MrChad]

Wouldn't getting a Mac Mini be a lot easier?

 

[hippotautamus]

Well, given that the demos shown at E3 were running on G5s, it's not much of a stretch. The Xbox 360 really is just a super powered Mac computer underneath, so I don't think it will take long at all.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: chcarnage
Microsoft hacked the Powermacs to run a modified Windows NT, so i don't think the X-Box 360 is going to boot Mac OS X in the near future...

How did MS hack the PM to run a modified WinNT?

WinNT4 supported PPCs, but never ran on Mac PPCs....only a very specific version of PPC+BIOS+motherboard (which never included Macs...)

 

[KoolDrew]

I would buy the console regardless of this...

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: bersl2
Doesn't OSX whitelist Apple hardware and reject everything else?

Then how do the PearPC developers get it to work? I have installed OSX on my Windows desktop. Only was on here for about 30 minutes before I deleted it. (just wanted to see it work and say that I had done it)

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: chcarnage
Microsoft hacked the Powermacs to run a modified Windows NT, so i don't think the X-Box 360 is going to boot Mac OS X in the near future...

How did MS hack the PM to run a modified WinNT?

WinNT4 supported PPCs, but never ran on Mac PPCs....only a very specific version of PPC+BIOS+motherboard (which never included Macs...)

XBox 360 dev kits include Mac G5s.
Microsoft is supplying a modified NT kernel for the G5s included in the dev kits.
XBox 360 is PPC-based.
Microsoft is supplying a modified NT kernel for the XBox 360.


I predict XBox 360 will never boot OS X.

 

[Nothinman]

Then how do the PearPC developers get it to work?

Since it emulates all of the hardware, I would assume that it just lies and says it's a Mac, although a really, really, really slow one.

I predict XBox 360 will never boot OS X.

I agree. It may boot Darwin, since that's OSS but I doubt they'll ever get the Apple closed crap running. Although I have no doubt there will be Linux projects running on it in a few months, time depending on how much DRM is on the thing.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Then how do the PearPC developers get it to work?

Since it emulates all of the hardware, I would assume that it just lies and says it's a Mac, although a really, really, really slow one.

I believe the important part is the chipset.

... depending on how much DRM is on the thing.

I think that's the most important part of the equation.

 

[drag]

The best way to accomplish this is to get Linux to boot on the Xbox 360 and then use Mac-on-Linux to run Mac on it.

This is what I do with my Ibook so that I don't have to dual-boot Linux and OS X. I just start up OS X in Linux any time I want to use it.

Then the chipset and everything is immaterial since all the hardware interfaces are provided thru Linux-based intermediate drivers.

That's a lot of work for not any benifit. You could boot up it theoreticly, but no 3d performance, probably no network, and you have to fight your own computer to use it.

Microsoft probably learned it's lesson from Linux on the first Xbox, they probably have significantly more barriers to FOSS software then before.