Zune HD "jailbroken"

dmendenjr

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For the few / proud zune owners... this is great news! Still a bit cumbersome to load, but amazing upside...

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While obviously not 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 gives 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.

Using OpenZDK developers now have access to the Nvidia Tegra 3D hardware and web access - things that XNA did not allow for. Sadly, it sounds like you'll need to reboot after using said apps since it still accesses the XNA layer (which deactivates the DRM); but you have to do that now with XNA apps.
 
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