RE: [ros-dev] HAL reorganisation

[Colin Burn]

CXBX would not be suitable for developing ROS. CXBX doesn't try to emulate
any of the hardware of an Xbox, it instead tries to convert an xbox
executable (xbe) into a windows executable (exe). The conversion is done by
locating DirectX calls in the xbe (Note: On an xbox the executables are
directly linked to the DirectX libraries) and redirecting them appropriately
under windows.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Campbell [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 01 December 2004 09:31
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] HAL reorganisation


Keep in mind there is an XBOX emulator:  CXBX available at 
http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/, that, though incomplete, runs at least 1 
commercial game and might be complete enough to run an xbox port of 
ROS.  Also, i'm sure you already know about the OpenXDK at 
http://www.openxdk.org/.

[Anich Gregor]

Like Colin said, CXBX is more like WINE than an Emulator.

But the DirectX code is *inlined* into the executables, they directly talk to 
the NVIDIA chip afaik. The hard part about CXBX is detecting these blocks and 
replacing them by appropriate DirectX calls ;-)

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:24, Colin Burn wrote:
>   CXBX would not be suitable for developing ROS. CXBX
> doesn't try to emulate
>  any of the hardware of an Xbox, it instead tries to convert an xbox
>  executable (xbe) into a windows executable (exe). The conversion is done by
>  locating DirectX calls in the xbe (Note: On an xbox the executables are
>  directly linked to the DirectX libraries) and redirecting them
>  appropriately under windows.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Richard Campbell [mailto:[e-mail]]
>  Sent: 01 December 2004 09:31
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] HAL reorganisation
>
>
>  Keep in mind there is an XBOX emulator:  CXBX available at
>  http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/, that, though incomplete, runs at least 1
>  commercial game and might be complete enough to run an xbox port of
>  ROS.  Also, i'm sure you already know about the OpenXDK at
>  http://www.openxdk.org/.
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