I saw this was posted earlier today as "To k3rn3l" so i was wondering what it was as i didn't have access to my ngs. atleast i know what it is now
what i'm thinking however and many of you haven't considered yet is some possibilities of this.
there were many posts that said "what is the point it can't do anything more than an x2 bios does". true, for the most part it doesn't as you can't access config live let alone save the settings. however, if it is further hacked to allow booting of config live, it could then also be hacked to instead of save/store settings to eeprom to save to a text file on the hard drive and load the settings upon boot similarly to ind-bios.
also alot of posts saying "it's a proof of concept" bla bla bla bla.... sure proof of concepts are always somewhat nice, it was well over a year ago xecuter first bundled an xbe into the bios and now look where it is (there really aren't many new bios specific features in the x3 bioses that the x2 doesn't have, they are mainly all xbe features through x3 cl). The thing that bothers me though is that they seem so proud that someone disproved someone by making it work on a chip other than it is entended. the thing is though that it's always been known that the bios could load on any chip with a big enough flash rom (or 1meg tsop for that matter) the thing it couldn't do it still can not and that is save settings so that you get full advantage of the bios.
so where is my stance on what i see comming of this or hope does happen, i think that eventually that the x3 bioses will be modded enough that they will work on other chips, however they will always be a few releases behind as i see different compression and encryption algorithms being used now than what were previously. as i've always said about anything that has been hacked, cloned, etc, to me that would be somewhat of a compliment. it shows just how badly people want something when they have to hack it up like this, though they are not willing to pay anything more than they have to. to me it would be somewhat flattering that someone went through the trouble to try and hack this bios, however it also shows that they can't create something this good on their own or you'd see more than 2 teams making bioses from source (teamxecuter and ind-bios). sometimes thing like this are good as they help push creativity, lets hope that this is the case.
