MS design switch thwarts Xbox mod chips (Register)
[Posted September 24, 2002 by cook]
Accordint to the Register, Microsoft
has modified the hardware for its Xbox game platform, which will
thwart the porting of Linux to the platform.
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Microsoft has made some modifications to the internal design of Xbox in the
name of security, the most immediate upshot being apparently that existing
mod chips won't work with the new design. According to a posting last week on
the Xboxhacker BBS (reproduced here, the first of the new designs have been
spotted in Australia."
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