Inner secrets of X-Box revealed

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Gameguru Mania News - Aug,25 2001 -

Inner secrets of X-Box revealed - tech
(hx) 05:58 AM CEST - Aug,25 2001 - Post a comment
The Inquirer posted an interview with an anonymous US X-Box games developer about X-Box emulation on PC and XBox games. He explains that the real reason it's not likely that emulation of X-Box games on the PC will succeed is because the X-Box uses a unified memory architecture:
"That's impossible to emulate in software, because games on X-Box can be designed to load stuff once in to memory and use it directly without uploading it to the graphics card. The whole memory management code for a well-written native X-Box game is therefore completely different from a PC game."
"It would be analogous to running your entire application out of VRAM. In fact, running the whole thing out of VRAM might work as a substitute on the PC, but the bus bandwidth would be greatly reduced - AGP 4X probably wouldn't cut it."
Despite claims that it's Windows-compatible, X-Box runs its own OS. Although the API bears a strong resemblance to the Win32 API, there are new functions in X-Box that simply don't exist in Windows, and vice-versa; plus many API functions that have the same name ignore certain parameters (this is especially true of the WinSock implementation). [more]

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