Video of iPhone/iPod OS running on Mac Pro with touch screen monitor
The bright sparks over at Dreamfield (Swedish post-production powerhouse) have figured out how to get the iPhone/iPod OS running on a Mac Pro with a touch screen monitor. Check out the brief vid below!
Reader Comments
ryantaylor on October 17th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
The bootloader is rEFIt, you can download it for free!
bradleytompkins on September 20th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Spammon, your Mac “history” is a little off there… obviously Mac’s have always had “drivers” for devices, and have had them in the more “traditional” sense since at least System 7 — which came out long before they transitioned away from ROM based operating systems or even to the PowerPC processor. You dragged them into the “Extensions” folder in order to get your add-on video cards, sound cards, DOS cards, ect to work.
As far as I know (and correct me if I’m wrong) but regular touch screens can’t detect more than one touch point, so multi-touch would be impossible.
Also, how does rotating the screen tell the OS that the motion sensor has been activated?
Third, the hardware, starting with the CPU on a Mac is different from that used in an iPhone/iPod, so there’d be no binary compatibility.
If it is the actual OS pulled from an iPhone, then it’s running inside some kind of emulator. Maybe, like SJ does his keynotes, they worked out how to broadcast the output of the iPhone Simulator in the dev tools.
The bootloader is rEFIt, you can download it for free!
Idk what it is but its frikin awesome! i would never be able to do stuff like that though… im poor
is it realy iphoneOS or is an emulator?
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Spammon, your Mac “history” is a little off there… obviously Mac’s have always had “drivers” for devices, and have had them in the more “traditional” sense since at least System 7 — which came out long before they transitioned away from ROM based operating systems or even to the PowerPC processor. You dragged them into the “Extensions” folder in order to get your add-on video cards, sound cards, DOS cards, ect to work.
[url]http://www.dreamfield.se/2009/06/iphoneipod-viral-experiment/[/url]
Well done anyway
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iIT’S A FAKE. LOOK IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO.
LOOK HERE http://www.dreamfield.se/2009/06/iphoneipod-viral-experiment/
estoy de acuerdo en que esto es un montaje
This is fake for the following reasons, IMO:
As far as I know (and correct me if I’m wrong) but regular touch screens can’t detect more than one touch point, so multi-touch would be impossible. Also, how does rotating the screen tell the OS that the motion sensor has been activated? Third, the hardware, starting with the CPU on a Mac is different from that used in an iPhone/iPod, so there’d be no binary compatibility.
If it is the actual OS pulled from an iPhone, then it’s running inside some kind of emulator. Maybe, like SJ does his keynotes, they worked out how to broadcast the output of the iPhone Simulator in the dev tools.