XBOX-HQ.COM - Xecuter3 beta shipped!

We are pleased to inform you that the first samples of X3 have shipped to our list of "preferred" testers. This version has no i/o support and will include about 90% of the final Bios functions. We will be counting on a great deal of feedback to see success stories and also to see what bugs and requests for change need to be addressed.

The final X3 will now have 16 I/O ports to support a multitude of future add-ons. We have developed a Parallel LCD interface which will require no soldering and will simply be plug n play. This will be deveoped in time for the final version. We are also currently developing a 320x200 LCD system - stay tuned!

We have also successfully implemented the new HDD upgrade function. It's so fast and simple to use
- boot X3 with new HDD, select New HDD Upgrade (you can also set your LBA48 settings on the fly)
- Your drive is partitioned and ready to FTP at upto 11,000 kb/sec in less than 5 seconds (This is included in the beta trials). The hardware info section now has an Xbox version checker & video encoder checker - including the new Xcaliber.

Another new feature is the User Selectable Startup Logo. Instead of it saying XECUTER3 or MICROSOFT you can have any logo you wish - in color too! Now the great thing about our new version is that before you had to manually convert the bmp image to raw data using some dos app - our new bios will convert it to raw format on the fly so all you need to upload to your xbox is xecuter3.bmp :)

The new FTP Bios Loader is brilliant. You simply FTP into your Xbox - select the admin folder and you have 4 options - 2048k, 1024k, 512k and 256k. If you have a 1MB (1024k) bios which is the size of the X3 bios - simply open up the 1024k folder. You then get two more folders Banks1234 and Banks5678. Choose which bank set you wish to store the bios and upload. Your bios is flashed and verified in seconds :)

These are just a few of the many, many USEFUL and FUN features you will be playing with.

Source: TeamExecuter.com