Shaun, for you mate:

Sounds mad I know, but if you want your Xbox to go above and beyond the call of duty, well then your prayers have been answered.

15:14 Website Icrontic has now posted up two features that basically tell you how you can modify your Xbox. You might have thought it was already the daddy: now it can be the daddy with sugar on top. The sugar daddy.
The first feature basically takes you through the innards of the machine and tells you what's what, but the fun really starts in part two. It's a bit of a "no guts, no glory" situation, because, if you want to play around at tweaking your Xbox, you're going to have to pull the thing apart and get your hands dirty; and risk screwing your machine for good.

Eek!

There are a number of things that the Icrontic Xbox-masher has tried, some successful some not. Switching the cable that connects the hard drive to the motherboard was met with an improved CD to hard drive ripping speed, while attempts to adapt the machine to support USB mouse and USB keyboard didn't seem to work.

Other sweet bits include the possibility to mess around with the Xbox's network settings and play both Halo and Tony Hawk online with other owners of Microsoft's console. However, a little bit of a helping hand is needed in the shape of a PC running Windows or Linux...

Propellorheads should certainly find this an incredibly interesting read; it's quite amazing to see what people have already attempted to do or have succeeded in doing with the Xbox.

-DV

(courtesy of C&VG)

 

By the way, more footage from RalliSport Challenge on X-Box












-DV

[Edited by DazV - 11/27/2001 4:59:14 PM]

 

I didn't realise Digital Illusions were writing this game - they're a top TOP developer. They wrote my 2nd favourite PC driving game - Rally Masters, so this WILL be good.

-DV

 

are the 2 guys in the citroen identical twins ?

 

Has anyone seen Wreckless? looks quite tasty to me!

http://www.gowreckless.com/flash/index.html

Matt

 

Daz,

I wonder if I can overclock the GPU & CPU!!!!!!

 

Shaun,

hehe, just what I was thinking. Bet you can as well. Good ol' windows CE probably has a registry!

Best leave it for now.

-DV

 

Mmmmmm..... It ain't Windows Ce in the Xbox

Richard

 

All I can say is www.Icrontic.com is amazing

the part 1 and part 2 stories tought me a lot about my Xbox

Richard

 

work should be picking one up just before christmas

downside theres gonna be one hell of a fight to take it home over christmas...

seen the pc demo & it looks its gotta be really with a nvidia GPU. Since DirectX pc graphics have left PS way behind. Oh & they're gonna be left way way behind...

 

rsquire,

sorry mate - wasn't sure about WindowsCE - haven't payed much attention to X-Box really until now. Still can't say I'm that keen on one.

What OS does it use ?

 

Daz,

I'm not quite sure exactly what the O/S is - M$ just say "Windows based" so I'd assumed it was a CE derivative too.

All the best,

Dean

 

OS is modified NT. We're looking into them here at work, it's looking likely that they will be affected by viruses/worms.

 

Looks like the mechanics forgot the brakes on the citroen though .

When the xbox available? how much? and are the games being ported to a 'normal' PC?

Chris

 

Haha, maybe this Citroen has adopted the brakes from my Citroen DS. In an efford to keep the unsprung weight down they placed the brakediscs next to the engine, on the beginning of the drive-axle.

Looks amazing though, i'm curious about the framerates...