Recomp / OS & system / Xbox
Cromwell
Free, legal BIOS replacement for the original Xbox, written to boot Linux without Microsoft code.
Clean-room Human-led stalledFacts
- Original
- Original Xbox BIOS (2001)
- Platform
- Xbox
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Xbox Linux project era what this means
- Status
- stalled
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- XboxDev
- Runs on
- Xbox
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by XboxDev. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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