Planning a cxbx on linux?

[xbaby]

Thanks caustik the progress is amazing.

How about porting cxbx to Linux, to get an all open sourced xbox emu:
cxbx -> dx8 to opengl wrapper -> linux
or
cxbx -> winex -> linux

Which one should be more practice? Is there any other big technical obscure to overcome? It’s something like the Wine/WineX.

[Dark Watcher]

Since the real Xbox console uses a Win 2000 Kernal..It appears that caustik is building as close to it as possible. That explains why the emulator will not run on Win 98 / ME machines. So chances are if it could be done it may require the use of Wine / WineX...and that alone sounds like it will run quite slow...an Xbox emulator running on a Windows Emulator on Linux...whoah

[chipsugar]

Not really. The Windows API is software that does stuff and the Wine API is software that does the same stuff so it should run at approx the same speed whatever route the emulator chooses.

The Wine kernel would have to do a lot of stuff just as the Windows 2000 kernel would, tho, and I don't think it tries to mimic specific windows versions.

[ector]

Having looked at the source code of CXBX, I'd say that Wine better be damn accurate in its Windows kernel emulation to handle CXBX

[jimmsta]

I think that wineX might be able to handle cxbx, in most of the graphics. When, or if ever, audio support is added, wineX will probably have some sort of problem... that is, of course, if caustik doesn't use commonly-available code. If it's common, then there's a chance that it'll work...

BTW, it looks like this forum system uses micro$oft-copyright'd icons in the toolbar... Good job.

[chipsugar]

Caustik has already had a glance at this. He says so in "CXBX requires XP". Apparently wine does have some NT/2000/XP specific support.

[fastlance]

im gona give it a go today

[caustik]

I think it'd be really great to see some skilled devs give Cxbx-on-Wine a go. I suspect its entirely possible, and it is *very* worth the effort. The techniques used by Wine and Cxbx are efficient, so realtime speed would not be just a pipe dream.

[scottlc]

Originally Posted by Dark Watcher

Since the real Xbox console uses a Win 2000 Kernal..It appears that caustik is building as close to it as possible. That explains why the emulator will not run on Win 98 / ME machines. So chances are if it could be done it may require the use of Wine / WineX...and that alone sounds like it will run quite slow...an Xbox emulator running on a Windows Emulator on Linux...whoah

Wine is not an emulator it is an API layer. This is why it only runs on x86 systems.

[blueshogun96]

Originally Posted by caustik

I think it'd be really great to see some skilled devs give Cxbx-on-Wine a go. I suspect its entirely possible, and it is *very* worth the effort. The techniques used by Wine and Cxbx are efficient, so realtime speed would not be just a pipe dream.

Glad to see that you aren't gone forever sir, I was really worried.

BTW: what is wine and winex ? Forgive me, I'm stupid

[ChaosCode]

windows api emulators for linux

[Lentoman]

Originally Posted by blueshogun96

BTW: what is wine and winex ? Forgive me, I'm stupid

"Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available."

http://www.winehq.com/