*laughs*
This is funny.
XOS 2.0 is about what is coming, not what it is. Any initial platform is not going to be vary feature rich. It takes a long time to write one of these programs from scratch. The only thing I can fault team OzXodus with is that it took them a damn long time to just tell people that they were having problems because they needed to compleatly re-do the XOS from scratch without any Linux component.
Multi-threading -
I belive that they are not talking about playing games and doing other things at the same time. multithreading is prevented in the xbox in software.
Lets say you are transfering files back and forth using FTP. at the same time you could be listening to a MP3 or be playing an emulator.
XOS is not a BIOS and XOS as a dashboard-
This is 100% correct but you are not thinking technecly. The dashboard is simply used to load a game or control functions. One does not need to call up the dashboard exactly to launch a game. When you insert the a game into a normal xbox please note that by default it is set up to boot the BIOS and THEN the DVD, the dashboard only gets called up if there is no default.xbe avalible on the D partition. The game then calls up files from the hard drive that realate to Active X and other components, but NOT the dashboard itself.
Now lets just say that the XOS becomes a dashboard. The XOS acts as its own BIOS as sorts, kinda like a pre BIOS (works between the power on and BIOS start). This then allows you to do anything you could in, say Avalaunch. So now you have a launcher that works outside of the confines of the xbox BIOS enviornment.
Yes this new enviornment does not work with XDK compiled software but I am getting to that.
Anyways now you can do things like FTP, play MP3s, and run any moduals or programs writen for this enviornment without the confines of a MS baded BIOS.
Lets say you want to start XBMC or a game.
Just like in any dashboard you can go in a menue to select a game or applications and start executing it.
Now this is where things get different. As an example I am going to use X2 4981 as an example.
If you want to launch an application that the path is already dictated as the first boot option (such as DVD or without a DVD in as the first HD boot option) it will now halt tasks, clear itself out of memory, and hand control over to the xbox BIOS.
However lets say you launch a xbox game you backed up onto your hard drive so you dont have to drag disks around to LAN parties. BIOS cooking allows the XOS to make a temporary copy of the BIOS and alter it to point to the proper .XBE and then all of the unloading and other such stuff is done as in the last paragraph.
They dont need to make their own BIOS to run or execute programs. THey dont even NEED others to recompile their programs or games for XOS. If they do though then they gain more flexebility and functionality, but it is not needed at all.
BIOS cooking takes a seccond or two and since the XOS will be able to boot a BIOS from the hard drive it will not have to be flashed to the chip.
LCD -
Well vary few people will actualy use this feature so I assume that they are more concerned about the framework of their new system then LCD support. Then again since the LCD support was implemented and shown off so long ago they may not feel the need to list it as a feature. It is already assumed in and they are focusing more on the new features they havent talked about.
Then again it could just be that they implemented it under the 1.x system, figured out they were reaching the limit to the old system and decided to make a new one, leaving this not commonly used feature until latter.
Propaganda -
Lets face this every team is neck deep in this. the X3 is still vapoware to most of the community, SmartXX has released quite a few releases that kill EEPROMs and for the longest time their chip and OS was vapoware, and OzXodus is just trying to keep people interested while they try to pull a entirely new OS out of their hats with every one of thier compeditors trying to capitalize on the dificulty and time it takes to do it.
The modchip scenes are no longer what they were like during the early PS2 and PSx days. It is now a buisness. Marketing, slam tactics, ect are now common place. And because this is a gray area market (the product is not exactly illigal) there are no fair competition rules.
If someone wants to take a feature from someone else they can do it without any fear of legal reprisals. You cant copyright or enforce the originality of your code without risking some conecequences.
The customer may be in the dark, but so is the competition. The only way to beat someone is to be there first or to implement something better.
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