Tag Archives: XBox

Recommend me a replacement for XBMC+Xbox

Posted on April 18, 2010 by James

I’ve got an Xbox running XBMC which happily plays video on my telly. It’s great but time is moving on and there’s other features I’d like to do that the poor old XBox can’t cope with.

What can I replace my XBox with that’ll let me do the following:

Play back video from a samba share
Play Youtube/Vimeo in “HD”
Play iPlayer

I’m after some sort of… Continue reading | 1 Comment

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Commodore 1084s XBox monitor revisited

Posted on December 28, 2008 by James

As mentioned in my previous post I’ve hooked a Commodore 1084s monitor up to my XBox instead of a knackered old 14 inch telly. As requested, here are some photos of it…

Commodore 1084s monitor connected to an XBox showing XBMC

Commodore 1084s monitor connected to an XBox showing XBMC

[caption id=”attachment_1657″ align=”alignleft” width=”640″ caption=”Rear of a Commodore 1084s monitor… Continue reading

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New uses for an old Commodore 1084S monitor

Posted on December 28, 2008 by James

Back in the pixellated, pre-Internet days of the late 80s and early 90s, the thing to buy for your computer was a monitor. Unless you’ve been alive during the time when computers plugged into TVs this will seem quite strange, computers have always plugged into monitors, right?

While it’s true PC and Mac computers have always plugged into monitors, before Microsoft took over the planet it was quite normal for computers… Continue reading

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Fuppes, OGG files and my XBox 360

Posted on October 22, 2008 by James

Thanks to Dom pointing me in the right direction, I’ve managed to make Fuppes share videos and music with my XBox 360, the Logik Internet Radio in my bedroom, the two regular XBoxes running XBMC and my N810 Internet tablet.

I tried this before, and it sort of broke down and I got horribly confused. Now it all works :)

This will also get written up and explained on my main website… Continue reading

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How I chipped my XBox

Posted on July 16, 2008 by James
A Modchip installed inside an XBox

A Modchip installed inside an XBox

I’ve finally got around to writing up my experience chipping my XBox. Despite my troubles, chipping an XBox is an easy task that shouldn’t take more than half an hour. I was hampered by a damaged modchip and all the associated testing and trouble-shooting… Continue reading

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