The Xbox would now boot from my install DVD-R, and I could
choose what I wanted to do next. The first thing I tried
was just choosing the auto-install option but after quite a
while it failed at 28% for some reason, so I then decided
to bite the bullet and format the hard drive first, which
is one of the options in the installer. This went OK and I
then decided to install stuff from the DVD one by one. EvoX
installed perfectly so I rebooted and YES! I was booting
with my new dashboard in place. From then on it was plain
sailing as I could load up the brilliant
Transmit on my Mac and FTP
into the Xbox (any FTP app or even the Terminal will do
but Transmit is the best). I had some problems with the
XBMC installed by the boot disk, so I downloaded the
latest version of XBMC (again, I can't tell you exactly
where from) and installed that by just dragging the
files to my Xbox E: drive and all was fine. Even now I
can't get over what an
amazingly accomplished
piece of software this is, especially when
using the beautiful
MC360 skin.
I've also made my own skin for EvoX which you can
download here:
OSX-WOPR-2.
It's based on Mac OS X and I think it looks pretty nice.
Making skins for XBMC seems a lot more involved so I'm
leaving that well alone for now. However it's easy to
customise the startup screen for XBMC, and I've added a
nice Apple themed one to mine. You can download the image
here:
splash.png and it just
replaces the one in the media folder inside the xbmc folder
on your Xbox E: drive.
Here's how my EvoX skin looks (shown half size
without info filled in):
And here's the screen that fades in when you've
selected an app to load:
My XBMC loading screen :)
