View Full Version : Runnings Apps from ZIPs
El Piranna
2006-11-18, 22:32
Noooo, I'm not crazy (maybe a little, no more ;) ). My idea consist in that you have a little amount of little homebrew apps (a little kilobits, no more) stored in .zip files (or other extension to identify them, for example ".zApp", from "zipped App") and XBMC unzip them at a temporal place and run the app from that.
ultrabrutal
2006-11-19, 23:25
what's the point? I would understand attaching iso/imgs as a virtual d drive and running games from there... attaching from network even if slow to start. I understand it's possible from harddrive via nkpatcher or something...
Its a waste of time and would increase the actual running time of an app by heaps not to mention of it actually modifies files while its running how wouls xbmc know what ones to add back into the archive again. Not to mention how would it know when to delete the files it unzipped
El Piranna
2006-11-20, 23:04
Hey, it was just an idea... The fact is than i have been founding a lot of little homebrew apps that don't need anything of that (for example, MineXweeper). I only thought it could be interesting...
And yes, a virtual D drive to load local or net ISOs could be great, but i know it's impossible (someone has say "XBMC over ReactOS"? ;) )
you can "attach" local ISO files to a virtual D: drive using NKpatcher. Local files only, network stuff obviously does not work.
ultrabrutal
2006-11-21, 12:46
el piranna, like sleepyp says it is possible with local files (xbmc doesnt support this though) and if nkpatcher can do it with local files, I see no reason why it should not be possible with network files if auther implemented it. I even think it would not even run that slowly compared to from a DVD media. And it would give little reason to a hd upgrade to people with multiple xboxes
El Piranna
2006-11-21, 23:27
Yes, yesterday i searched about "nkpatcher" and i was really surprised, i didn't know people was modifying the XBox kernel... I talked about ReactOS because it's the most similar to a "open xbox kernel" without the limitations that original has, and it seems it start to work on XBox, and it seems it less "dangerous" that reflash XBox BIOS...
basic operation of this:
everytime XBMC starts delete the comtents of the temp directory
when users request to run an app from a zip archive
ask for which file to be run
extract ALL the files in the zip to a temp directory
run the app
A Much easier way of doing things:
extract the files on your pc
ftp to xbox
run app