Back in March I came home for spring break and quickly found myself motivated to do something dumb with Linux but there was an issue, all of my stuff was back in my dorm. The only thing I really had was a hard modded Xbox 360, an old monitor, and an even older keyboard.
Of course.
That Compaq keyboard he is using. With the weird buttons for Q, i and E-shop. I dont use those buttons. But the rest will last for decades. I changed it a while for a gaming keyboard with coloured keys and such. But changed it back. Cause, its ulgy but also good enough.
Cool idea, but if he wants 3D he needs to look at Linux Framebuffer 3D programming. People have done 3D accelerated graphics on Linux without the overhead of X11. If it was done well you could get a really nice 3D gaming setup built. But this is 15+ year old hardware we’re talking about and the payoff probably isn’t worth it. Then again Xbox 360 used an ATi GPU so if you can adapt the AMD DRM drivers for Linux to the 360 you might be able to leverage the work of the MESA team to accelerate your progress towards a reasonable timeframe. Don’t expect too much though we’re talking about DirectX 9.0C level hardware here.
Has anyone jailbroke the 360 like the OR Xbox? I remember back in the day the OG box made a hell of a media center PC (Still use Kodi for my media center builds, makes a hell of an HTPC front end) so if the 360 is as easy to break as the OG I may have to look at getting a few for media boxes.
I would think raspberry Pi would make a much better, and perhaps cheaper, solution for media center stuff. Plus the xbox 360 is a notoriously unreliable HW platform.
That was only true for the initial models. Later refreshes are very reliable (as can be seen in this demo, working fine many years after).
And it would be nowhere close at full power (potentially).
360 is estimated to have 240 gigaflops.
https://thegamingsetup.com/console-power-comparison-chart
Best config of Raspberry PI is measured at 60 gigaflops for vector operations:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=290082
It is a 10W vs 200W system comparison. Of course even if older, Xbox 360 has much more processing power.
On the other hand, RPi has dedicated media decoding in the GPU, and is open source. Xbox 360 GPU does not have drivers, and require CPU based framebuffer. And also has much less RAM (512MB vs 4GB).
Bottom line: If we had drivers 360 would be a good option. Currently, especially given size and power RPi is better.
I mean, even with drivers for the XB360 the RPi still sounds like a better alternative when it comes to a media center application 😉
sukru,
I’m actually looking for one right now. The RPI is still out of stock 🙁
The alternatives generally cost more and traditionally they’re not as well supported. I really miss the era of cheap SBCs and I fear the hikes could be permanent. I’ve lost so much power on practically everything these past few years.
https://ameridroid.com/products/rock-pi-4-model-a?variant=39759763275810
“Prices include 25% tariffs for import into the US from China”
https://ameridroid.com/collections/single-board-computer/products/odroid-n2-coreelec-edition-1?variant=40332910002210
“power” -> “buying power”