Re: 360 Homebrew Breakthrough

"Bobby Internet" <bobbyinternet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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
>

Not likely unless you like watching your videos and playing your emulators
at 1fps.
It's working in the same way remote desktop does, try watching a video in
wmp on that...

Firefox should be possible though, anything not graphically intensive should
be doable.


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