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    The photo below shows the fate of about 98% of the Xbox Alpha Dev Kit's...

    ...The picture isn't that clear but it was taken in a Game Development Studio showing an Alpha smashed into a thousand pieces as a sign of triumph moving away from Alpha Dev Kit's to Beta Consoles!

    ...The other 1.5% of Alpha Dev Kits were converted to 'regular' P.C's, thus rendering them usless as Xbox Dev Kit's :(

    ...About 0.5% of Alpha Dev Kit's managed to survive into preservation :(


    Quote Originally Posted by PhreQuencYViii
    Dude, how do Dev systems and kits and stuff even get into the hands of the public?
    ...Some people are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
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    thats wrong! plaing wrong! Dont these people know what they are doing!
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    damn, that pic is sad :(

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    wahhhhhhhhhhhhh


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    Just think, thats happening to the 360 ones right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Borman
    Just think, thats happening to the 360 ones right now.
    Not too much of a tragedy though, as with the beta/alpha 360 kits, the important bit is the software - the hardware is mac G5's

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    Umm you dont know if its just plain G5s though. Also the GFX cards!
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    *Oh nos*

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    Quote Originally Posted by the_steadster
    Not too much of a tragedy though, as with the beta/alpha 360 kits, the important bit is the software - the hardware is mac G5's

    The hardware BIOS is critical on the 360 Dev Kit's just like it is on the Alpha Xbox Dev Kits...

    ...In other words the hardware is important.

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    so the dev-kits and std G5's contain different bios's? interesting.
    Last edited by the_steadster; 07-01-2005 at 05:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulo
    Also the GFX cards!

    That reminds me, talking of rare graphics cards here's the BIOS of the NV20 on the Alpha Dev Kit loading up...
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    That reminds me, talking of rare graphics cards here's the BIOS of the NV20 on the Alpha Dev Kit loading up...
    Granted it's not specifically Xbox related, but how many of you have an NV1 card?

    Seeing that BIOS screen reminded me of it for some reason, heh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hl718
    Granted it's not specifically Xbox related, but how many of you have an NV1 card?
    Me! kekekekekeke :smt033
    That BIOS text is interesting, though - does that NV20 have its own memory, unlike the Xbox with its UMA?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntiPasta
    Me! kekekekekeke :smt033
    That BIOS text is interesting, though - does that NV20 have its own memory, unlike the Xbox with its UMA?

    Yes it has 64MB RAM on a traditional plug in GF3 'type' AGP board, flashed with a Prototype Engineering BIOS.

    ...The UMA part is 'emulated' on the Alpha Dev Kit's to simulate the final console UMA.

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