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Microsoft Made Games For Xbox On PowerMac !! MAC G5 !!
here is the website !
here is the website !
mraya said:Since the new Xbox 360 is based on PowerPC processor i guess is logic to use a G5 to help development. I wish this help somehow to getmore games for Mac.
lilimacfreak said:Well there is also a myth that Xbox 360 games will run on a Mac.
Amen-Moses said:What makes you think this is a myth?
The Xbox2 will be ATI & PPC based and games will be developed on PowerMacs so what is stopping the games being played on Apple hardware exactly?
Amen-Moses
embries said:Now if someone were to get creative and get the OS we stand a fighting chance of getting the games to run on a G5. However, getting the OS coded for standard G5 Macs will be neigh on impossible. It'll be interesting to see where we are a year from now on this.
dan828 said:LOL...I just bet an MS OS would be really popular running on a Mac...
Avalon said:Actually, the OS running on the G5s that MS uses as Xbox 360 development kits is a special version of WindowsNT.
WindowsNT actualy was available for other CPUs than Intel/AMD, including the PowerPC and DEC Alpha CPUs.
That means:
Xbox 360 games are not developped on OS X (thus will NOT run natively on a Mac).
The Xbox 360 is not a stripped down PowerMac G5, and eventhough it's CPU might be of the same family and architecture it is NOT the same thing.
A computer (and a gaming console) is made of more than just the CPU...using the same CPU (which it's not anyway) doesn't make it the same device.
Amen-Moses said:Did anyone make these claims?
Personally I have no problem dual booting into NT(ish) to play Xbox games.
Amen-Moses
Avalon said:Actually, the OS running on the G5s that MS uses as Xbox 360 development kits is a special version of WindowsNT.
WindowsNT actualy was available for other CPUs than Intel/AMD, including the PowerPC and DEC Alpha CPUs.
dan828 said:Yeah, but I think they quit supporting non- x86 chips back in 1999 or so, so I think the last version compatible with Power PC was something like NT 3.5. Interesting if they just updated the old NT OS to run on a G5 as an XBOX 360 development platform. It makes sense I suppose-- much cheaper to use what's on the shelf allready then to reinvent everything from scratch.