360 Homebrew Breakthrough

"I was messing around with the Media Extender interface on the X360, and
noticed that the "More Programs" linked to a couple of apps installed on my
PC as part of the Media Center Package, including MS Instant Messenger and
some other stuff. All of these run when you access them from the 360 Media
Extender client. The 360 essentially seems to act as a dumb terminal,
interfacing with the application running on the PC.

Here's where things really get interesting: It's apparently very easy to
integrate Windows applications into the MCE "More Programs" tab. All you
have to do is build a link in a format specified by Microsoft and do some
minor optimization, and the app will run in MCE. Here is how Microsoft
describes the process of building games for MCE: msdn.microsoft.com.

So I downloaded a couple of apps and installed them on MCE, switched over to
the 360, and lo and behold, most of them run perfectly. I was able to run
apps with modified browsers to pull down news stories, stock quotes, sports
scores etc., as well as several Internet Radio clients.

I also tried installing a couple of shareware games, including a Tetris
clone and some card games. Interestingly, they all launch on the 360, but
crash soon afterwards. My guess is that you could get them to run with some
optimization. There even is a MAME emu for MCE out there, though I haven't
tried to install it.

My guess is that it will be difficult to get anything other than simple
casual games to run in real time using the interface, due to lag in response
times. But I would think getting something like a full web browser up and
running should be achievable."



Dear Santa

Please can I have apps for my 360 in this order please..

XBMC360
Firefox
A Snes Emu

Thankyou...........

Bobby



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Relevant Pages

  • Re: 360 Homebrew Breakthrough
    ... Here's where things really get interesting: It's apparently very easy to integrate Windows applications into the MCE "More Programs" tab. ... So I downloaded a couple of apps and installed them on MCE, switched over to the 360, and lo and behold, most of them run perfectly. ... I also tried installing a couple of shareware games, including a Tetris clone and some card games. ...
    (uk.games.video.xbox)
  • Re: Media Extender
    ... Media Center/the UI is running on the PC, so a faster network will make it ... > online games over wireless G all the time with no lag at all. ... >>> The video card in your MCE PC is irrelevant. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: MCE stopped working?
    ... date when MCE was working. ... > I don't remember installing anything new except for a few games! ... > Everything about Windows XP Media Center Edition ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: Media Center Extender Errors
    ... Settings, General, About Media Center, Software version displays the MCE software version. ... Changing the Ident value to 4.0 is correct if you have MCE 2005 with Update Rollup 2 installed. ... MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security ... 8:15:52 PM: Checking only instance of installer. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: Media Center Extender Errors
    ... You are running MCE 2005 with Update Rollup 2, ... MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security ... 8:15:52 PM: Checking only instance of installer. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
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