All of the large scale limited edition xbox consoles were made up of used parts and non-defective returns. By changing the SKU, they were allowed...
All of the partners boxes were gifts, given to companies that provided components, software, or services. Mine also came from Intel. I believe...
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The floppy was mounted backwards in the case, it served no actual function on the Alphas. Presumably, they used it to flash the firmware onto the...
Xblade seems to mean a few different things, so I'm not sure what you're asking. Xblade was originally just the codename for what became the 1.6...
I'm the original owner of the console, I didn't get it until february or so after I had bought my own console. I didn't expect to get one, as I...
The error had to go through about a dozen people before it was stamped on a disc, so that kind of makes sense...
The internal recoveries are nothing interesting, they were just used by the hardware team to debug the dashboard itself. The only difference...
It's very rare for dev consoles to be legally sold. Most of the time, they're considered stolen. The only real exception I know if is if they go...
Not true, mine was manufactured Dec 24, 2005 (foxcon doesn't get time off for christmas, i guess). I always assumed they were all manufactured...
You mean Mech "Assult": [ATTACH] (that pic was taken with a Razr phone, if that tells you how old it is)
What do you do with 15 year old source code you have no way of compiling? Store it on tape backups, then when you no longer have the ability to...
One's a fan, the other is a heat sink. Anything else I can help ID?
That's because yoshi had no idea wtf he was doing when he made that BFM devkit bios. He's lucky it boots at all.
Not sure about audio. Honestly, i'm not sure we tried playing a game on the frankenalpha. Games were pretty hard to find back then.
I wrote the bio force ape homebrew NES game while working as a full time game developer for activision. It's actually helped land me a few jobs...
Alamos were a manufacturing sample so engineers could see how all the internals functioned (hence why they're clear). The dakotas were supposed to...
My understanding was that you paid a few grand for the 'contractor's license', and then were able to purchase XeDK's at standard rates. It's been...
They were shipped with some (not all) of the DTL-3's, and those were only produced for a single week in 2001. I've heard rumors that some went out...
There was never a DC build for halo. There was a 'working' build of halo on PS2, but it was literally just driving a warthog around some hills....
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