Soon after the release of the first 64GB Zune HD lainding in customers’ hands, the ZuneBoards website, annouonced that the Zune HD and all earlier Zunes, although the potential there is a tad more limited, “have been hacked” While it isn’t the first hack of any sort for the devices, this is described as the “first true hack,” and it has made the concurrently-released OpenZDK possible. That effectively allows developers “access to everything XNA withheld before,” which more or less opens to doors to any type of application that can run on the Zune hardware – games, emulators, app stores, you name it. Of course there’s not a ton for average Zune users to play with at the moment, but the developers can find all they need to get cracking.
Just a few days after the hacking the Zune HD and unleashing the OpenZDK, the Zune community forumgoer Netrix has opened the portal to the familiar alien hell, where gamers will be allowed to play Doom. A full installer is available here; see OpenZDK’s power in action below:
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