garyopa
01-03-2012, 10:31 AM
Hacking toward the Ultimate Game Console
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKSID00000000000000000440/icon_xl.jpg
Apple has the operating system, app + gaming ecosystem and even has an excellent piece of hardware already in place — why, oh, why haven’t they let the genie out of the bottle?
A recent fresh New Year's hack from 'Steven Troughton-Smith' and 'TheMudKip' that enables the powerful second-generation Apple TV to run existing iOS apps at 'fullscreen' as started up the rumors that good old 'Cupertino' could easy pull the trigger and launch their own 'gaming console' via the current Apple TV which has powerful A4 processor and 256mb of RAM but is currently limited to certain 'sandboxed' apps like Netflix, etc.
The feat was accomplished using a custom Springboard (Home Screen) written by TheMudKip on a jailbroken Apple TV. Troughton-Smith has since been making progress running iPhone and iPad apps at full resolution.
Many existing apps seem to run well on the Apple TV, which is known to be an iOS device using an A4 processor. When this generation of the Apple TV was released, we noted that Apple may have had plans to incorporate native applications all along. In fact, Jobs said that an Apple TV App Store could launch when the time is right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3A5vfML100
NEWS SOURCE: Apple TV Hacked (via) MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/01/apple-tv-hacked-to-run-ios-apps-at-full-screen/) and The Ultimate Game Console (via) Mac.Blorge (http://mac.blorge.com/2012/01/02/hacking-toward-the-ultimate-game-console/)
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKSID00000000000000000440/icon_xl.jpg
Apple has the operating system, app + gaming ecosystem and even has an excellent piece of hardware already in place — why, oh, why haven’t they let the genie out of the bottle?
A recent fresh New Year's hack from 'Steven Troughton-Smith' and 'TheMudKip' that enables the powerful second-generation Apple TV to run existing iOS apps at 'fullscreen' as started up the rumors that good old 'Cupertino' could easy pull the trigger and launch their own 'gaming console' via the current Apple TV which has powerful A4 processor and 256mb of RAM but is currently limited to certain 'sandboxed' apps like Netflix, etc.
The feat was accomplished using a custom Springboard (Home Screen) written by TheMudKip on a jailbroken Apple TV. Troughton-Smith has since been making progress running iPhone and iPad apps at full resolution.
Many existing apps seem to run well on the Apple TV, which is known to be an iOS device using an A4 processor. When this generation of the Apple TV was released, we noted that Apple may have had plans to incorporate native applications all along. In fact, Jobs said that an Apple TV App Store could launch when the time is right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3A5vfML100
NEWS SOURCE: Apple TV Hacked (via) MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/01/apple-tv-hacked-to-run-ios-apps-at-full-screen/) and The Ultimate Game Console (via) Mac.Blorge (http://mac.blorge.com/2012/01/02/hacking-toward-the-ultimate-game-console/)