RE: [Free60-Devel] Re: Game DVD formats

2005-11-28 Thread Darren Coles
At the lowest level, CD and DVD formats are a lot more complicated than you might think. Its not just a case of writing the 0's and 1's from the data you want to store onto disc. Theres several layers of error correction and the fact that the data has To be encoded in such a way that it can be

RE: [Free60-Devel] Re: Game DVD formats

2005-11-28 Thread Darren Coles
Sorry, I just assumed you didn't know anything about the low level disc formats. I think most people just think that the data in a raw disc image (for example) just get written straight to the disc as pits and troughs translated from the 0's and 1's. I'm not too hot on the differences between CD

Re: [Free60-Devel] Re: Game DVD formats

2005-11-28 Thread Constantin Hofstetter
How about connecting the DVD drive from the xbox360 to the pc? ;)Yes, it has a special power plug, but leave that in the xbox360, connect sata to the PC and fire up both -I wonder what the results would be ... ConstiOn 11/28/05, smo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,No problem :) I wouldn't say I

Re: [Free60-Devel] Re: Game DVD formats

2005-11-28 Thread Sheldon Neuberger
That sounds promising... Does the 360's HDD use a regular SATA hookup? Does anyone here have a 360 that they could try this with? On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:12:52 -0500, Constantin Hofstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about connecting the DVD drive from the xbox360 to the pc? ;) Yes, it

Re: [Free60-Devel] Re: Game DVD formats

2005-11-28 Thread Constantin Hofstetter
Mhh.. and the http://www.free60.org/wiki/DVD page tells us that: The DVD-ROM doesn't work on a standard pc workstation - I am gona change that to The DVD-ROM doesn't work on a standard pc workstation, yet. :)On 11/28/05, Constantin Hofstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HDD also uses a normal

Re: [Free60-Devel] Re: Game DVD formats

2005-11-28 Thread smo
That was under the subtitle Speculation, so I guess no one has really tried it yet. I found some threads on some forums that say Xbox1's DVD drive works on a PC (though nothing too concrete). On 28/11/05, Constantin Hofstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mhh.. and the

Re: [Free60-Devel] Please Update Your Account Access

2005-11-28 Thread Doug Stewart
Oh darn, I guess that account that we all share is in risk. There goes our millions. Wells Fargo Staff wrote: Wells Fargo Home PageWells Fargo Home Page http://www.wellsfargo.com/Talking ATM Locations http://www.wellsfargo.com/auxiliary_access/aa_talkatmloc.jhtmlSkip Navigation to go

RE: [Free60-Devel] RE: 360 Media Center

2005-11-28 Thread Halsall, Mike
Ahhh, the Intorw3b... someone beat me to it. I don't know if you've seen the /. article, but here's the link: http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=73324 Now moving on to more interesting things... Mike From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Free60-Devel] Etiquette request

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Pearson
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Re: [Free60-Devel] Etiquette request

2005-11-28 Thread Derrick
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Re: [Free60-Devel] Please Update Your Account Access

2005-11-28 Thread Constantin Hofstetter
Well.. guess what happens - you order the Xbox, he wont pay the bill, the credit card company will try to figure out who you are and make your life to hell. :)And that just because Black Hats see the world .. differently :) On 11/28/05, shai-tan shai-tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not as bad as one

Re: [Free60-Devel] Potential vulnerability ideas

2005-11-28 Thread Pat O'Loughlin
the gpu is also having overheating problems, which is causing those artifacts

Re: [Free60-Devel] emulator

2005-11-28 Thread Devlin McMillan-Cashman
Emulator updates and updates in general are encrypted downloads. Presumably you could do what your suggesting... if we could at least get past that encryption.On 11/28/05, Sheldon Neuberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that to run old games the 360 downloads an emulator. I have heardthat you

Re: [Free60-Devel] emulator

2005-11-28 Thread shai-tan shai-tan
Encryption Huh. Know what its encrypted with? Ive done a bit of stuff with Cryptography

Re: [Free60-Devel] emulator

2005-11-28 Thread Justin Noah
Here's the link for the xex file http://assets.xbox.com/en-us/backwardcompatibility/default.zip

Re: [Free60-Devel] emulator

2005-11-28 Thread Sheldon Neuberger
Quick note... That is at the beginning of the xex, not the end. I did notice that and just as a test renemaed the default.xex file to default.exe on my win2k machine and when I run it I get a prompt that says Program too big to fit in memory. Can someone run this file on an XP machine and

Re: [Free60-Devel] emulator

2005-11-28 Thread Jeff Roderick
:) It's no use to run it on Windows. It does not have an exe structure. Besides, it's meant to be run on a completely different architecture. Here you can find details on what's known at the moment: http://www.free60.org/wiki/BackwardsCompatibility http://www.free60.org/wiki/XEX Quick

[Free60-Devel] Free60-Devel Digest: PowerPC Hardware [2005-11-28]

2005-11-28 Thread PidGin 128
Hello, I've been in and out of the irc chat and across the wiki as well. logos are cool, and I'm not picky, but I gravitate towards orange if anyone wants easy votes :D The information about hypervisor [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor ]technology is very interesting a read, and I

Re: [Free60-Devel] On-board (test) sockets?

2005-11-28 Thread Segin
Arthur Othieno wrote: Hi, Firstly, majority of these are shots of the devkit. The sockets are still present on retail units, but filled with solder instead. Where possible, a comparison shot has been posted. Here goes: 1) http://xbox360.1stgame.nl/36.html Two sets of pin headers (white) to

Re: [Free60-Devel] USB security?

2005-11-28 Thread Segin
Constantin Hofstetter wrote: I know I know.. has propably already been discussed in here: What about USB-Connectivity-Device security? I remember reading a paper about USB devices and using buffer overflows and such to gain access to the systems cache etc. I tryed to find a link to that ppt

[Free60-Devel] More default.xex stuff

2005-11-28 Thread Dan
Hi All, In the freely downloadable default.xex, I noticed a couple things. there is a reference to a xam.xex that everyone seems to have ignored/overlooked so far (0x1b80), adjacent to xboxkrnl.exe . The file seems to follow some pattern until 0x2000, which is then either compressed, encrypted

Re: [Free60-Devel] More default.xex stuff

2005-11-28 Thread Dan
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:13:28 -0800 Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Hopefully it will be possible to plug a 360's HD in a (SATA-capable) computer, put specially crafted files on, and get the 360 to use it. E.g. a movie clip that exploits a yet-to-be-found buffer overflow/other vulnerability.

Re: [Free60-Devel] Hello

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Tillman
Bruce Boettjer wrote: Just a quick note to introduce myself and say 'Hi' to folks already here. It is my understanding that the '360 uses 970FX cores licensed from IBM. I designed and implemented IBM's reference design for the 970FX (Maple) [SNIP] Hello Bruce, thanks for stopping by.