A new acquisition

~ Inquisitor

I've just bought a second-hand Xbox.

I've never actually been able to justify a console before – I have a high spec PC with a high spec video card. Game consoles really lend themselves to a more social gaming experience; I play strategy games and single-player storyline FPSes.

So what am I doing buying an Xbox? Well, the clue's in the category title – modding the thing is the cheapest possible way to build a media centre in my front room without putting a full-size PC in there. I'm not modding so I can run pirate Xbox games, so no-one need worry about that; I buy few games, but I buy legit (albeit second hand). I'm modding so that I can run XBMC and stream MP3s and Xvids off the large hard drives in the other room, pure and simple.

My trials in modding the thing will be posted on this blog as a warning to all that follow… 

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Software developer, occasional tweeter, semi-occasional writer. The pseudonym is after one of the better Red Dwarf villains of the week. @inquisitor on Twitter, @inquisitor@mas.to on Mastodon, @inquisitor.flickeringframe.com on Bluesky, not to be confused with an American tabloid (I had it first).