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I thought there was already an Xbox 360 emulator called Windows 7

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The Xbox 360 ran on a triple-core PowerPC.

It was not an x86 architecture, and would have required an emulator to run x86 Windows 7. I also never owned one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360

Windows NT 4 had a POWER port. This was discontinued when Windows 2000 arrived. If Microsoft wanted to release another version for POWER, they could easily do so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

"Windows NT 3.51 added support for the PowerPC processor in 1995, specifically PReP-compliant systems such as the IBM ThinkPad Power Series laptops and Motorola PowerStack series; but despite meetings between Michael Spindler and Bill Gates, not on the Power Macintosh as the PReP compliant Power Macintosh project failed to ship."

The best way to get information online is to say the wrong thing. Kudos for enlightening me on this topic!

Actually, Sony and Nintendo were also on POWER at this stage. Sony ran a particularly exotic variant, the "Cell" processor; this used a single POWER core that was tied in a ring architecture to several specialized coprocessors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)

For the next generation of consoles, AMD's integration of ATI graphics onto a single die CPU/GPU/APU proved irresistible, and both Sony and Xbox switched to AMD x86 variants. The Nintendo Switch adopted the Nvidia Tegra ARM architecure.

IBM essentially had one generation of consoles. I don't know why they didn't fight harder for this market.

Compatibility is pretty poor. No support for Forza 2-4, Gears of War 2 or 3, Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon. And controller support is broken on Oblivion and many other titles requiring another app to fix.

Forza 3 and 4 are on windows. 1 and 2 aren’t

Forza Horizon 3 and 4 are on Windows, but Forza 3 and 4 were Xbox 360 only.

Original Xbox had a tool released which could convert an Xbox binary to a Windows PE file and run it. Original Xbox was x86 running at 800mhz with a windows kernel IIRC.

You are probably thinking of that.

In a bizarre plot twist, there is an actual project which tries to recompile Xbox 360 XEXes to run on x86 Windows: https://github.com/rexdex/recompiler

Minor edit. It was 733Mhz with a Celeron/Pentium III with its cache halved

Was that an official tool? I thought one of the Xbox emulators worked that way.

Not official, no

Windows 7 is malware, bloatware, and everything wrong with software.

Ok, but please don't fulminate or post unsubstantive comments on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Windows 7 is the last usable one. You probably meant 10 and/or 11.

Agreed. It was what I kept running under emulation for years when I still had to maintain backward compatibility with IE on some sites. It was the last one that was actually a user-first OS as opposed to a corporate-first ad platform.

Actually I forgot what it was like. I have not used it in decades.

But it's all malware nevertheless and with each new version you can expect it to become more aggressive (e.g.: Pluto).

You forgot about 8 (likely for the better.)

The thing wrong with SW is postured elitism over other software from clueless users like you who just like to spread FUD.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. Also, personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do that.

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