I've just been speaking to RedCloud, the guy that's made the xbox-controller-driver XBCD, and he says its compatable with Windows CE.


If someone with a mouse and keyboard could install this driver, then it'd be one massive step in the right direction.

There's a link to the xbcd webpage, from the XS homepage. its in the news.

yeh it wud be a massive leap, but u'll need ppl wit ce experience to implement it and release it

while it might be possible to integrete the driver into the windows ce image - the driver is built as a joystick driver - it would take alot of additional work to allow it to work as a mouse pointer

Why do you ppl want to install windows so bad? Why not Linux you can do 100 times more stuff. The Windows ce cant run the normal windows apps, and the ce hand held apps will have to be recompiled for x86 use.
Windows drools, Linux RULZ!

because if they stop talking about it it would die and no one would ever use it.


however i do agree if you want to use the xbox as a PC linux is a better choice WinCe it more of a novilty then anythign else on the xbox.

OMG stfu already with arguing for or against linux.. Yes.. linux will never die.. because there are always going to be wierd nerds who dont shower but once every few weeks that will always use it.. for the rest of the NORMAL world who want to be on par with the other 99.999% of PC users theres windows...

Also.. its funny that so many linux users brag about performance and this and that but you will find independant studies that show that the NT environment is actually more efficient in real world scenarios. Not to mention that you dont have to waste most of your time TRYING to get the environment you want.

what he said ^^^

I want Win CE, for the xbox, if and when all the problems / bugs are sorted.
Just for quick and basic Internet / E-Mails.

Yes all this can be done on linux, witch i have been playing with.

**edit***

man i had a big soap box speech written up about the worthlessness of linux but ,,, alas,, dont even get me started...

just go the hell away,, we arent in your forum telling you how stupid your os is..

grow up.. and go back to reading your linux bible.

^^^

Considering linux is free, it really is not that bad of an operating system.

You have to pay big bucks for Windows.

If the two were both priced the same, Linux would die overnight. But linux is free.

I personally like Windows better, but I use Xebian here because all I need is a nice, reliable web browser. LInux supplies that for me.

If Windows does come, then I will definetly check it out. But I won't doing a whole lot that I am not doing with linux right now.

Just to add my 2 cents, the Redcloud guy also has drivers for using a virtual keyboard/mouse with a joystick/gamepad/HID device I believe.

is he gonna add the drivers to the wince image?

If the driver can be used to emulate the mouse cursor and virtual keyboard created wince would be fun to mess with on the xbox cus at the moment you can't do anything, as theres no cursor or keyboard.

The mouse actually does work. You can just not see the pointer.

still a bit pointless as you can't see it and thus can't do much, unless u like randomly clicking everywhere untill something runs.

Wow... I hafe win ce working... no pointer... but I now where he is... just select with your mouse and move da ass, you will see where your mouse left !!. The system ifo told me Ihae a Petium 3 or 4 and running a lot of Kb memory ...64 Mb
a driver for my controler should be nice, a Pointer give me more time..
one problem...I can´t get inside the control screen, There´s nothing inside.

By the way, This Win CE directly works, I didn´t find any linux with a xbe that i can instal in 2 second and run ...

If it exist, PLEASE TELL me where I can find it.

just windows
XBOX
WINDOWS on XBX ...
Linux .. ....

so whats the reason we dont see the pointer? ??

the device driver maybe?

Where do i get the most recent version of this .CE build?

sorry to dig this thread up but is anyone ever going to continue this project or atleast fix it so you can see the pointer and perhaps add controller support for mouse usage and a virtual kb?

yes i like to have a worring usb keyboard at least

it detects the keyboard but cant type anything
mouse i can deal with actualy , altrough it would be nice to see what i'm doing


remember kids windows is free too is you dont pay for it
the hell with linux

feels like this little project was just to show windows worked, so i guess its dead now right?

Interview with the dude making Windows for Xbox. His goal is to get it to work like WinXP (with the help of others of course)

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT8602839775.html

This is an old article. There have been may attempts contact the author to no avail It looks like he has lost interest in the project. A shame as it did show promise.

dont know if this is the right thread for this but has anyone tried using that smartjoy frag thing to get a keyboard/mouse to work with xdsl or windows for the xbox?

xdsl work with x3panel usb ports.