Haktar Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Hey, ive got two 1st gen xboxs, i had softmodded one of them but the other hasnt been touched, just wondering if u guys had any cool ideas on hacks for it ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techknow Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I have a first gen xbox which I softmodded and installed XBMC on. It works _really_ well as a media centre and I love it. It only cost €20 and it provides huge amounts of functionality. If you want you can run it as a desktop using XDSL, or you can use it as a server running xbox-linux. You can replace the hard drive if you want for both the server and media centre uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haktar Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 hmm thats a really good idea ;), have u used xbox-linux? does it run well if u have? just noticed ive got a spare 320gb IDE sitting here, could put it to some good use :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZesteR Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 excid3 prob. wants to post this but I beat him to it, lol http://excid3.betaserver.org/?page_id=41 excid3 - know him from IRC It's somewhat of a walkthru for Xbox Softmod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haktar Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 haha thanks ;), ive actually already soft modded one of them, what would be the easiest way to install linux on the modded on? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcninja Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 pop one out and put it into a real case and use it as a regular computer, imagine "cool, whats the specs?" "xbox" "WTF?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haktar Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 :o thats exactly what i was gonna do lol, ive got a brand new pc case been sitting there for ages lol gonna hurt losing my xbox casing cause i modded it though lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcninja Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 put a computer into it! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord C Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Been thinking about buying a couple of these, they are practically giving them away now. My servers are old Dell GX280s and they have overheating problems, so they're dying. Was considering using a couple of old xboxes maybe. Just as a torrent server n stuff, nothing exciting. That is of course assuming you can install a nice CLI Linux distro on there, not just the media centre stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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