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quote from chokemaniac.net: i’ve come a long way :) many things happened in the past 12 months. when i started this site, i only wanted a couple of screenshots of the project mayhem skin and a download button. but critikill made soo much more out of it. thanks a lot out to you bud. hope your current…

the contest is now over. we would like to thank all who contributed in one way or another. the standard was very high, and we are really impressed with what you guys came up with. the 5 winners were easy to choose since 5 people entered the contest. each of the winners receive an x2vga-adapter each…

from chokemaniacs website: “it’s finally online. the new project mayhem website. it was about time to give it a general facelift. think it turned out pretty good. there’s plenty of new stuff to check out. new skins, updated gallery, news archive, wallpapers and much more to come. the man, who put…

from arddrive of xform.xbox-scene.com: “hi everyone, arddrive here at xform. i am please to announce that xform [an xbmc skinning tool] is now open source and i am looking for .net c# programmers to help work on xform to work on custom objects and fun stuff like that (you will need a good knowledge…

yesterday, an article with the headline “xbox enthusiasts uncover its versatility” (by daniel greenberg) was posted in the washington post technology section. the article basically informs its readers of the potential in unlocking the xbox to install xboxmediacenter, which makes the versatile xbox…

in an interview yesterday with cnet news.com bill gates outlined multimedia playback as one of microsoft’s primary goals with xbox 2; quote: “this whole story of the windows media connect and how all the formats and rights management and that simple media center menu that’s just got tv, photos…

neoya inc. (makers of the best vga-adapter for the xbox) has kindly donated 5 x2vga+ adapters to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this screen-saver development competition. the purpose of this contest is to develop new screensaver plugins for xbox media center (and extend xbmc’s screensaver…

apologies for the somewhat delayed news post, by now you’ve probably already heard that we’ve added a major update to our cvs. support for the free multiplayer online gaming service xlink kai has been massively improved. amongst many new features, it has a voice chat function (using team-avalaunch’s…

we have had this idea in mind for a while and were planning to kick of this campaign at a later date but after a recent post in mplayer-dev mailing-list we have decided to bring forward the announcement. the ‘donations for dvd-menu in xbmc campaign’ basic concept is to encourage xbmc end-users to…

xbmc 1.1.0 final point release source code has now been set in our cvs! once again we felt that we had been holding off doing any official release candidates for so long that we now consider the current xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point release should and could be, so we decided that we were ready…

news story from xbox-scene.com: received news from arddrive who has been working on xform (previously called xbmc-skinner), a win32 tool that will allow you to easily make skins for xboxmediacenter: “i know you have all been waiting a long time for xform but the beta release will be coming this…

team-xaddons (addons.com) have officialy announced a generic lcd-mod (adds a parallel and a spi-bus interface to your xbox) and a lcd-con (lcd-connector board) xbox-mod add-ons. the lcd-mod has several pin-headers and sockets to ensure compatability with a wide range of console versions and mod…

we are happy to announce that we have now once again put the xboxmediacenter cvs in a feature freeze and our second official xbmc public bug bash have begun, which is the first steps in the process of getting ready for another stable point release of xbmc. the cvs feature freeze stage implies that…

microsoft has as of last week (better late news than no news) officially dropped the rrp (recommended retail price) of their xbox® video game console in europe. the price was lower by £30/€50 making the new rrp £99.99/€149.99, (a price that now match the xbox price in north america which was dropped…

relax v0.79 relax now works with xbmc!….. if you don’t use xmbc then don’t download this release just put in xbmc the path like “xns://yourip:1400/” for the root and “xns://yourip:1400/divx” for your divxes.. etc here is the changelog! relax now works with xbmc.. to do that i had to rework the…

the winners of the xbmc skinning contest has now been finalized, but first we like to offer a public apology for our delay in this decision, (we had some copyright issues to sort out and real-life/work stuff came up too that had to be dealt with first). 15 out the 20 submitted entries has been…

xbmc 1.0.0 point release source code has now been set in our cvs, so believe it or not, the day that many of you been waiting for is finally here, today, now! we felt that we had been holding off doing release candidates for so long that we now consider the xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point…

this is just a simple reminder that there is now very little time left to submit your xboxmediacenter skin if you made one for our skinning contest. we will officially accept (valid) entries until 12:00 am g:mt 21st of june 2004 (that is 12 o’clock noon tomorrow greenwich mean time), so make sure…

we have decided to postpone the last submission date of our xbmc skinning contest by one month, this mostly due to the few number of skins submitted so far. postponing the contest means new skinners will get a chance to catch up to join the competition and all existing skinners get to perfect the…