As the title says,is it possible to run Windows ME on Xbox? As far as I know,it's the same as 98 minus legacy MS-DOS. (still 9x kernel tho). Since I've got a modded box in here (v1.0,Phillips DVD-ROM,80GB Maxtor HDD,ATA100 IDE cable installed,X2 5035 TSOP) that although it's got the stock RAM and CPU (64MB and 733MHz Celeron),I guess it could run a trimmed down (through 98lite) version of ME,through the XDSL/98Lite emulator's 98.sh script that is included. At least,I got a trimmed down version of 98 to run (the one that is included with the XDSL/98Lite pack) on my Xbox albeit being a little bit slow. Editing in a bigger size than the 16MB RAM allocated by QEMU results in a crash to Linux desktop after the Windows 98 logo. Anybody know why?
Wasn't it based on windows nt/windows 2000? Windows CE.NET has been made too boot on it. But no one bothered to make input drivers for it so you can't actually use it, if I'm not mistaken. If you have programming skills you could go to WinBeta and lurk around there as they have a working Windows frankenbuild sourcecode comprised of winnt/win2k/win2k3. Here's wince running natively (not vm like win98 in the dsl distro you're talking about, which is lame lol) http://www.xbox-scene.com/index.php?newsview=1#newsitemEpZkZyZpAlsvviKxOg
Windows ME was based on 9x (95/98),not NT kernel. 2000 and onwards are based on NT. Also,to run 98SE or ME there's no way I know of running them on a Xbox other than through QEMU on XDSL.
No, you misunderstood me. What I meant was: isn't xbox running a winnt/win2k based os? Also winme is a glorified service pack of win98 and still based on msdos.
I don't know,but I don't think it runs on NT/2K based OS at all. As far as I know,the Xbox's EEPROM uses a 2k hook,but don't take my word on that,as I'm unsure about that. I'll dig into the forums and check.
The xbox kernel is a stripped down windows 2000 kernel. The very early alphy build off the alpha kits were a windows 2000 os.
That's what I was thinking. It would be very weird for xbox to be running a dos based os like winme lol
Some useful info in this old thread from Xbox-Scene: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?/topic/380167-windows-98-working-in-xdsl/page-3 Max RAM allocation on a stock Xbox would be 32MB. That is Windows ME's absolute minimum. If you cannot get it to work with 32MB allocation, you could try installing from command line with the old "setup /nm" trick. Not sure if it will work, and it will probably run like a nightmare if it does. Best of luck! It would be interesting to see if KernelEx would run over top 98/ME as well.
Well,I just got it running. Funny thing,it takes a bit longer to display the desktop than to actually boot into a gray screen with the mouse. However,it will crash the XDSL to dsl@tty. Will see if it works after I run 98lite and remove IE entirely,along with HTML,and use a 3rd party browser (Firefox 2.0 or Opera 9) on it.