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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 22:12:24 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

   Going over an old hard drive of mine from like 25 years ago and found this 2002 video file named xbox-linux4.avi just chilling in the videos directory.

   #linux #xbox #retrocomputing

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 22:14:46 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     Back when haxxing Linux into game consoles was a feat :blobcatsip:
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:58:13 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Nazo
     @nazokiyoubinbou The first Matrix movie is playing on what might be Windows Media Player on Windows, not sure which version. It then turns out that Windows is running on a VM on Linux, with what looks like a Gnome 2.0 desktop. And then all of this turns out to be running on an original XBox.
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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:58:14 JST Nazo

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     @Polychrome What is actually going on here? It looks initially to be Windows 9x?

     I guess the Xbox being basically just a PC other than the lack of standard BIOS and such, I can certainly see it being able to run such things, but I never heard of anyone putting Linux or Windows 9x on one for some reason. Then again, I mostly used mine with XBMC (eg Kodi today) and hardly even played games on it, lol.