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zangler
12-04-01, 02:32 AM
is it possible in any way to crunch with seti on a pda...using windows ce....or 2002? like a new jornada, or ipaq, something with the 206mhz strongarm? that would be cool, and if i get one, i would like to do it...what do you guys think?
i suppose if the code was ported to StrongARM then it would be a fantastic idea - maybe suggest it to whoever programs the seti thingy.
I already asked them for a Dreamcast port, but they didn't seem interested.
They might do it for Strongarm, but the client eats 16mb of ram.
I asked around, the people in the know don't seem to think its a good idea because the iPaq's Strongarm doesn't have any fpu, so it'd be incredibly slow.
zangler
12-04-01, 05:49 PM
thanks for the reply guys...guess i cant do it.....for xbox perhaps????
what CPU does it use? If it is an x86 CPU it shouldn't be too hard to port it.
minoukat
12-08-01, 09:22 AM
Originally posted by penguinfreak
what CPU does it use? If it is an x86 CPU it shouldn't be too hard to port it.
XBOX uses a P3 733MHz
No problem. All you need is an XBox compiler/assembler and the FAH source code.
CrystalMethod
12-08-01, 11:46 AM
Originally posted by minoukat
XBOX uses a P3 733MHz
Kinda, it's not a true 733 P3, as it only has 128 L2 onboard cache. But it does have the 8-way instead of the 4-way set associative L2 cache, so it's much better than a celeron. I kinda wonder how it'd oc if you managed to get it off the board and found a way to put it in a socket.
zangler
12-08-01, 11:49 AM
it is my brothers.....so i cant really do much to it.
It'd take a little more than a compiler and an assembler. Also, they never seem to give out the source to distributed computer projects. Besides, there's already i386 binaries, no?
Tell me, what would you do one you had a binary you felt would run on the Xbox's cpu?
Programming for the XBOX is quite a complex issue. Let's just say that you NEED thier SDK or wait until its cracked (which will not happen soon).
And why do you need those anyway?
Well, once (if?) someone figures out how to run Linux n the XBox, it will be a very attractive machine.
$300 for a P3/733, 64mb, 8 or 10gb hd, onboard 10/100 ethernet, and a maybe workable nForce chipset. Running Linux.
Sounds like a good price for a computer to me.
If the CPU is i386 then there will be no hw problems only the software interface with the OS or BIOS.
If the CPU is i386 then there will be no hw problems only the software interface with the OS or BIOS.
Yup. The hard part is going to be figuring out how the bootloader works, and maybe reverse engineering the partitioning scheme and filesystem of the hard drive.
Finding that out may be difficult. I don't think that M$ wants linux on the xbox...
RoadWarrior
12-17-01, 10:33 PM
I think M$ being definitely against any effort to get linux on the X box is bound to spur a few people to do it just for the hell of annoying M$ intensely :D
It's a 15 on the 1 to 10 cool hack value scale for that reason. :)
So there might be more effort towards it than one would think would be justified.
my 0.02
Road Warrior
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