Putting the Xbox os on a pc?

[arbellason55]

So I've always wondered why nobody has put the Xbone os on a pc? I'm guessing it is a hardware issue with the parts not being able to properly communicate with the os since it is optimized for very particular hardware. Has anyone tried a workaround before or is it just something that can't be done?

[AlwaysFSX]

You simply can't, BIOS won't load the OS and you can't even put the Xbone's BIOS on your computer. Installing the OS also does a hardware check, if it fails it won't install, guess what, your hardware is different.

[ProjectBox153]

These things are very different. This wouldn't work without a complete redesign of the operating system. This would be a really hard task to do, and the hardware optimization would be the first thing to go. 

[arbellason55]

It'd be an interesting project if someone had the time, patience and skill to do so.

[AlwaysFSX]

1 minute ago, arbellason55 said:

It'd be an interesting project if someone had the time, patience and skill to do so.

You can't.

[Trevor87]

If you goal is to run XBOX games on your pc you could always use emulator with Linux if you don't have a OS.

[arbellason55]

1 minute ago, AlwaysFSX said:

You can't.

i don't think it's a "can't" issue but more of it being highly impractical/ near impossible  thing to do.

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

It'd be an interesting project if someone had the time, patience and skill to do so.

You can't. Nobody in their right mind would try to re-engineer a (relatively, in hardware terms) niche operating system to run on another type of hardware. It would be a complete waste of time because the game optimization wouldn't be existent, and the games probably would need a lot of individual work to be ported over in the first place. 

 

4 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

i don't think it's a "can't" issue but more of it being highly impractical/ near impossible  thing to do.

With how much you'd need to do, it is pretty much impossible to do. 

[grimreeper132]

you see your thinking can you run the Xbox OS on a PC, I am wondering can I run windows on a xbox

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, grimreeper132 said:

you see your thinking can you run the Xbox OS on a PC, I am wondering can I run windows on a xbox

Maybe with some KILLER emulation skills, but not likely. It's got a custom AMD chip in it. 

[arbellason55]

Just now, grimreeper132 said:

you see your thinking can you run the Xbox OS on a PC, I am wondering can I run windows on a xbox

Running linux or windows on an Xbone is probably feasible but it's the same question as running Xbone's OS on a pc. Why would you? 

[AlwaysFSX]

9 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

i don't think it's a "can't" issue but more of it being highly impractical/ near impossible  thing to do.

No you don't understand, you can't. Even if you rewrite the BIOS to work on your motherboard the OS itself still does a hardware check, and you're not going to rewrite an operating system either. You simply don't have the hardware or software to make it work.

 

You literally can't do it.

[grimreeper132]

1 minute ago, arbellason55 said:

Running linux or windows on an Xbone is probably feasible but it's the same question as running Xbone's OS on a pc. Why would you? 

I dunno, I mean I can get a cheap xbox 360 for very little, £30-£50 which is probably on par if not higher spec wise than other £50 PCs, so you know it's a cheap PC, maybe if it works

[arbellason55]

1 minute ago, AlwaysFSX said:

No you don't understand, you can't. Even if you rewrite the BIOS to work on your motherboard the OS itself still does a hardware check, and you're not going to rewrite an operating system either. You simply don't have the hardware or software to make it work.

 

You literally can't do it.

I hope you know I'm being entirely theoretical with this.

[AlwaysFSX]

1 minute ago, arbellason55 said:

I hope you know I'm being entirely theoretical with this.

Your theory won't work.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, grimreeper132 said:

I dunno, I mean I can get a cheap xbox 360 for very little, £30-£50 which is probably on par if not higher spec wise than other £50 PCs, so you know it's a cheap PC, maybe if it works

It's designed as a console, and the usability and the practicality of something like that would just be stupid. And don't underestimate £50 computers, they can pack quite a punch. And you lose upgrade options. 

 

1 minute ago, arbellason55 said:

I hope you know I'm being entirely theoretical with this.

Theoretically, no. In reality, no. 

[grimreeper132]

Just now, AlwaysFSX said:

Your theory won't work.

will it work going the other way though, windows on xbox 1/360 (I don't wanna do this, just wondering myself)

[grimreeper132]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

It's designed as a console, and the usability and the practicality of something like that would just be stupid. And don't underestimate £50 computers, they can pack quite a punch. And you lose upgrade options.  

I don't wouldn't want it to work longer than 5-10 minutes, cause after that I will go, "well that was cool, lets go do something practical now" but I am just wondering if it is, cause I anit got anything else but to wonder if I could. and upgrade wise, meh. it would be a cool PC to have, and never use.

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

will it work going the other way though, windows on xbox 1/360 (I don't wanna do this, just wondering myself)

Only with some SERIOUS emulation on the console's part. Getting that to work would be difficult, though. I can see Windows 3.1 through NT 4 working,

 

1 minute ago, grimreeper132 said:

I don't wouldn't want it to work longer than 5-10 minutes, cause after that I will go, "well that was cool, lets go do something practical now" but I am just wondering if it is, cause I anit got anything else but to wonder if I could. and upgrade wise, meh. it would be a cool PC to have, and never use.

With a modern version of Windows, probably not. It'd be a lot of work for the console. But maybe something like Windows 3.1 or 95 (Someone got 3.1 on a Wii).

[grimreeper132]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Only with some SERIOUS emulation on the console's part. Getting that to work would be difficult, though. I can see Windows 3.1 through NT 4 working,

 

With a modern version of Windows, probably not. It'd be a lot of work for the console. But maybe something like Windows 3.1 or 95 (Someone got 3.1 on a Wii).

aye ok, I am thinking it would probably be easier with Linux, so yea, glad I now know it's possible, doubt I'll ever do it but glad I know it's possible

 

[michaelocarroll007]

34 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

So I've always wondered why nobody has put the Xbone os on a pc? I'm guessing it is a hardware issue with the parts not being able to properly communicate with the os since it is optimized for very particular hardware. Has anyone tried a workaround before or is it just something that can't be done?

 Emulation Exists for the easiest way to do something like this. Though emulation comes years after a consoles life cycle typically. Complexity and hardware speed are difficult to overcome 

[AlwaysFSX]

22 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

will it work going the other way though, windows on xbox 1/360 (I don't wanna do this, just wondering myself)

X1 maybe. If you can get the BIOS to boot it, which I would find hard to believe. 360 not a chance.

[grimreeper132]

Just now, AlwaysFSX said:

X1 maybe. If you can get the BIOS to boot it, which I would find hard to believe. 360 not a chance.

fair enough

[AlwaysFSX]

22 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

will it work going the other way though, windows on xbox 1/360 (I don't wanna do this, just wondering myself)

X1 maybe. If you can get the BIOS to boot it, which I would find hard to believe. 360 not a chance.

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, AlwaysFSX said:

X1 maybe. If you can get the BIOS to boot it, which I would find hard to believe. 360 not a chance.

Agreed. The Xbox 360 is based on PPC, which struggles to emulate Intel on newer Macs (than the 360).