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There is an interesting article at the scoop with regards to the embedded OS that the Xbox360 will run on. They have compiled a bunch of speculation and insider info to a well thought out theory. It looks like the Xbox360 will run on its own OS which has roots in the previous Xbox operating system. The original Xbox OS was derived from Windows 2000. So you could say that the Xbox360 OS is the grand son of Windows 2000.

Update: Well shortly after posting this, it was announced in a press conference Monday evening that the Xbox360 will be backwards compatible with “selective” Xbox titles. Not all, but most titles will be supported. More to come.

I realized the other night – now correct me if I’m wrong anyone – but Microsoft has released no information towards whether or not the Xbox360 will be backwards compatible with your old school Xbox games.

Can anyone confirm this?

Microsoft has launched their official Xbox 360 website xbox360.com following last nights unveiling of the Xbox unfortunately I missed the airing of it last night but luckily it willy be on again this weekend in Canada.

engadget is reporting some possible Xbox360 specs – whether or not they’re true, we’ll find out come this Friday. Below are the alleged specs:

Xbox360 Hardware:

1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU:

• 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
• 2 hardware threads per core
• 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
• 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance:

• 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor:

• 500 MHz
• 10 MB embedded DRAM
• 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
• unified shader architecture

Memory:

• 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
• 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth:

• 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
• 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio:

• Mulitchannel surround sond output
• Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
• 320 independent decompression channels
• 32 bit processing
• 256+ audio channels

Xbox360 Hacks

engadget is reporting that they’ve mysteriously obtained a photo of the actual Xbox360 – apparently taken with a camera phone at the Microsoft’s Xbox360 Revealed launch party in Los Angeles.

Here are some pics of the wireless controllers for the upcoming Xbox360. They seem to be sticking with the white theme from the previous pictures of the Xbox360 posted earlier.

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HackIIS6.com has an interesting contest going on with the prize being an xbox. The contest is just like the name suggests hack their IIS6 Server @ hackiis6.com to win. See their webpage for more details about what qualifies as a hack.

Well the pictures are all over the net on every XBox site it looks like this might be the next Xbox that we are all waiting for the “Xbox360″.

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