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X_Splinter

Jul 15 2006, 08:09 PM

Hi ppl.

I never heard anything about instaling windows 98 on xbox until now.

So i hope you guys can give me a hand because i don´t know how to do it

or

Tell me where i can download a tutorial for this

Thanks

deadparrot

Jul 16 2006, 06:31 PM

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=380997

It's about 10 threads down from this one!

charly_cat

Jul 20 2006, 10:46 PM

but can win98 run natively?? Without the linux running too? AS an application of evox or unleash????

torne

Jul 21 2006, 01:35 PM

QUOTE(charly_cat @ Jul 20 2006, 10:53 PM)

but can win98 run natively?? Without the linux running too? AS an application of evox or unleash????

No, and it probably never will. Win98 would be harder to port than 2000 or XP, because Consumer Windows depends on DOS and BIOS services too much during its startup process.

sand_man

Jul 21 2006, 02:23 PM

QUOTE(torne @ Jul 21 2006, 10:12 PM)

No, and it probably never will. Win98 would be harder to port than 2000 or XP, because Consumer Windows depends on DOS and BIOS services too much during its startup process.

Not to mention that you can't port something without it's source code.

torne

Jul 22 2006, 09:16 AM

QUOTE(sand_man @ Jul 21 2006, 02:30 PM)

Not to mention that you can't port something without it's source code.

Not actually true; if the source and target environments are *very* similar (which they are, for these purposes - PC and Xbox have almost no differences from a regular OS's point of view, beyond that which is already abstracted away by device drivers) it's plausible to do a binary port by disassembling and modifying the executables. Very hard, but not impossible.

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