XBMC4XBOX

The skins are sure looking good these days with lots of improvements across all the skins and I thank all involved either by feedback or the skinners themselves. The skin is the “Face” of XBMC. This is what people see. The PMIII skin is receiving a makeover by way of  PM 3.5 involving a contest. Check with the boys for details on this one. It would be good to see “Old Faithful” a bit brighter.

On the development side of XBMC improvements are constant with Arnova and Exobuzz working to continually improve the system and doing a fine job at it. Boys I’d just like to say these builds are running sweet. Sure, every now and then a build might have an issue but that’s not for long before it’s gone. A quick look at the Trunk shows what’s going on. Great work boys.

Scripts and Pluggins are being altered to keep them operational and everybody loves these working. Good to see clever little tricks to keep these things running supplied be different members. We really need a place to store these “Pluggin and Script Workarounds”.  Nice job all involved.

Craig, the guy that makes this all available for us all to enjoy, is after feedback on a project involving the “Build Downloads”. Please, if you have any suggestions have a say and help him with this one. It has a lot of potential.

Buy Hardware has become a popular place to pickup good advise and prices on assorted produces from T.V.s to Xbox controllers. So if you spot a good bargain or are just after a bit of feedback, this is the place.

Another 60 + members have joined since my last post to who I would like to say, “Good aye” and I look forward to hearing from you. The more the merrier I say. Anyway, this is what’s going on at the moment and I’ll speak to you in the forums.

Xman.

Confluence XBOX is now on all new builds and can I say what a nice skin Xbs and all those involved with this project  have achieved. It’s available as a choice within the Appearance Settings on all new XBMC4 Xbox builds which can be had via the Xbox Latest Nightly Build tab at the top of every forum page or of coarse using Dan’s XBMC SVN Installer to upgrade your build from within the Xbox after downloading via SVN Repo Installer.

Other topics of interest going on within the forum of late have included some really “Outside the square” lines of thought regarding XBMC which in my opinion is what enhances development. If we all did what we know works, we would never improve. Imagine if we never experimented. XBMP can show where we have come from with people thinking differently. Xbox development reminds me of the NASA spaceship that was only designed to go out past Mars on a two year journey and with the tech heads, it was able to continue out past Pluto and beyond for over seven years on what was described as  “Ancient Hardware”.

Modding has had me pretty occupied of late. After working on more stock Xboxes than I can remember, I’m finding it quite enjoyable trying different things in the way of case mods and hardware changes of which I’m far more confident doing than software mods. Let’s just say, I’m much better with my hands than I am with my fingers.

Help And Troubleshooting is as popular as always with many people helping others with Xbox and XBMC related problems. Good to see this help amongst the members with everybody pitching in. This help can be invaluable when your stuck or not sure how to do something.

500 members the forum now has and I’m seeing no slowing down. It’s good to see new members coming on board and it’s always nice to see members welcome first time posters. I see a forum much the same as a business where first impressions have a lasting impact. Anyway, congratulations XBMC4Xbox with 500 and counting.

XMAN

Well, first things first, we are up to over 400 members and rising rapidly and there are over 700 people taking advantage of the RSS feeds. I can actually remember discussing the need to alter the RSS feed from the previous source to one that was more Xbox related news. I think there were less than 50 members at that stage and that just seems so long ago.

On the development side, Arnova and Exobuzz just never stop. The future really looks promising while these guys are so active. I’d like to thank all the members giving feedback to the Devs on the latest builds and also Arnova and Exobuzz for being so active on the forum. This two way street approach is really advancing the build development. It’s great to hear so many suggestions on how to make this program possibly better.

The skins guys have done a great job giving us variety on the appearance of XBMC and making them available for us all to share. XBS is extremely active listening to requests for future or current skin mods and I thank him for that as well as his wealth of Xbox knowledge in general he brings to the forum.

Pluggins and scripts are the domain of Dan. This tricky and ever changing field requires regular changes to keep it all running. One look at the version changes of the scripts confirms just how active Dan is constantly improving and repairing to keep these things operational so we can sit on the couch and get the Xbox to do some amazing things. On top of this, he’s first on the “Lolly” count, that yellow thumb on each post that you push to show acknowledgment for good advise. Please, if you have any scripts or pluggins you have developed or use, share them with us. If there useful to you, I bet there useful to another member.

Lastly, I would like to acknowledge the work of Bomb Bloke, 2nd on the lolly count. Well where do I start?. This guy is Mr Xbox. When you get an answer from B.B., you can be sure it has been well researched and extremely accurate. I have learnt some amazing things from B.B. from how to do TSOP mods to what a Russian Bot is. I believe he was responsible for the changes to the top of the forum pages and doesn’t that look sweet. If anything goes wrong on the site, it’s not wrong for long, actually once he knows about it, it’s fixed. Thanks for keeping everything rolling B.B.

Well this is the State Of Health Of XBMC4Xbox as I see.

XMAN

We have reached 300 members in 108 days. I work from the day, March 20 2010 when the 3 “Elites” in there supreme wisdom decided to make XBMC4Xbox open to all. That’s about 3 new members per day. We must be doing something right. It could be the friendly atmosphere which may be different to the other XBMC related forums available on the net. We also have the most knowledgeable Xbox and XBMC people as members that are regular posters which can only be a good thing.

We must never forget there are always people starting from scratch on the “Modded Xbox” that really appreciate the help a veteran of XBMC on the Xbox platform can offer. Likewise, opinions vary on the best approach to address a particular problem and this I believe is healthy for a forum as nobody knows it all and we’re all capable of learning a new trick. I for one have been the beneficiary of many such tricks.

Anyway, I thank all the 300 members to date for making XBMC4Xbox such a friendly , helpful and useful forum that is a pleasure to be a member of.

XMAN.

The boys have been busy turning out some fine work on the builds front so we are able to keep our Xboxes running with the finest XBMC builds I’ve seen for some time. With the feedback members are giving Exobuzz through his post - “New Build With New Features” - he is turning out build and player mods guaranteed to keep the Box alive and well for a long time to come. To my understanding Exobuzz liaises with Arnova daily and their joint effort turns out the latest build. I’d just like to pass on a very big thank you for keeping XBMC alive and improving for the Xbox community.

I am very excited to see so many skin developers making there XBMC skins Xbox compliant and accessible from the site. This is sure good news for XBMC4Xbox members giving you the ability to totally change the appearance of XBMC to suit your own taste and allow a bit of uniqueness.

I think it was a stroke of genius by Craig to “Put out the call” for skins and thanks to Dan for uploading them to the site so quickly. Please, if you try a skin, give the designer a bit of feedback and this way it can only improve it’s functionality for the Xbox.

Xman.

Well, it’s official. The Xbox is on it’s own now and I can’t see this being a bad thing although on reading the “Official Announcement”, I must say it did feel a little like a child leaving home for the first time but I believe it is more like a family pushing “The Father” out of his home. On the up side I see our site swell in numbers and all indications show this will continue. Another up side is XBMC Xbox development will continue on it’s own dedicated path, not being hindered by the other platforms as has been the case for some time now. I have seen 3 milestones of member numbers since becoming editor them being our 50th, 100th and 150th  and by far the fastest being 100 to 150 for obvious reasons. To all our members, I would like to say, Thank you for making XBMC4Xbox your source for all things regarding Xbox and XBMC.

Xman.

Yes, XBMC XBox users out there, life goes on!

You might want to update your RSS feeds to point to this website and the new Trac project, see more details below on how to do that.

http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/wiki/index.php?title=RssFeeds.xml

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And corny as you know me, I will be adding a bit of Defendor atmosphere in here…

Farewell XBOX
May 27th, 2010 theuni

http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/05/27/farewell-xbox/

XBMC (XBMP really) started as a program for modified XBOX consoles. In the following years, XBMC has grown into a multi-platform, multi-architecture media center that runs on most standard hardware. The hardware and legal limitations of the XBOX were always a concern and the Team has instead focused on running on the hardware that most people already have.

The last official release for the XBOX by the XBMC team was Atlantis, over 18 months ago. Since then, one brave soul (Arnova) has been merging code from the main codebase into the XBOX branch in our repository. Because there were many users out there that took advantage of these updates, we had no problem with this.

But times have changed. The XBOX has hard limits for what it can handle. Some users are satisfied with these limits, and we encourage them to use XBMC there if they are happy. But it is a popular misconception that official XBOX development is still taking place by the team, so we have decided to set it free. We have enough on our plates already, and worrying about a deprecated platform just increases our workload. A few days ago the XBOX branch was finally removed from our subversion repository.

But loyal XBMC for XBOX users fear not! In addition to his role as an XBMC developer, Arnova plans to continue development on the XBOX — just not here. You can find the new project’s home at sourceforge. We’re leaving it in his hands to decide how to handle the project’s administration. How he manages the forum, bug tracker, scm, developers, etc. is up to him. In other words, don’t complain to us

In order to help users to find relevant help and discussion, we will be making the XBOX section of our forum read-only on Monday, June 07. It may be moved in the future, but for now it will stay for reference. This also means the end of XBOX support in the wiki and IRC.  Arnova has requested a snapshot of the wiki that he may host if he wishes as we begin to prune XBOX-specfic information from ours.

We wish Arnova and the project the best of luck as we bid a fond farewell to a big part of our past.

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