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  • learning_bird
    MacBidouille.com, who was the first great Mac oriented site to report on August 10th the successful efforts of getting OSXx86 for all of us, received a letter from Apple lawyers to delete the links to videos they had showing an intel laptop booting Mac OS X x86, which they did.
     
    Is Apple awakening or is just a small gesture to show they tried to combat the spreading of OSXx86, although they're delighted with this? What do you think?
     
    Links:
    www.macbidouille.com ( french )
    www.hardmac.com ( the english version site which still doesn't has the news )
  • Swad

    Build Your Own Mac for $199

    By Swad, in OSx86,

    While it was always possible (although costly and time consuming) to cobble together a PowerPC Mac from old and new parts, hardly anyone did it. Now that Apple has introduced OS X for Intel processors, however, it’s conceivable that you could soon be building your own Mac from scratch.
     
    One user, CEpeep, shopped around and found everything you’d need to build your own Intel Mac for under $200 - no rebates, no refurbs. Sure, the case is a little ghetto, it's got a 20 gig hard drive, and it’s no Millennium Falcon in terms of speed, but it runs Quartz Extreme and everything else that Tiger x86 requires. Most of us could actually build one for less with a few spare parts we have lying around…well…actually all over.
     
    Obviously, there are still many reasons why you’ll want to buy a true Mac – Apple quality and support, the current lack of a legal x86 OS X, etc. But it’s interesting to think that the days of the do-it-yourself Mac may be just around the corner.
     
    The list:
    Case $9.95: http://www.buypcdirect.com/product.asp?pf_id=cas-ge-lp600
    Motherboard $52.99: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813157075
    Processor $60.77: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=CELE-315BX&src=fr
    512 RAM $38.00: http://store.yahoo.com/pcmemory-stores/25pc26stoemf.html
    20 Gigabyte HD $25.95: http://www.etech4sale.com/hardware/partinfo-id-1852.html
    DVD Drive $12.00: http://www.compuvest.com/Description.jsp?iid=107882
     
    Total: $199.66
  • Swad
    It appears that Apple hasn't quite made up their mind about SSE3 yet. Or at least, they're not done with the Intel version of OS X.
     
    Those who have studied the new x86 version of the OS have reported that the necessity for SSE3 in the GUI has been established as fact. However, as this Apple document on the Intel transition states, "SSE3 is an optional hardware feature on MacOS X for Intel. If you wish to use SSE3 features, you must detect them first, similar to how you are required to check for AltiVec." The paper goes on to reveal that, "SSE is not available in any format for MacOS X for PowerPC and AltiVec is not available for MacOS X for Intel. When writing code for Universal Binaries to run on MacOS X, you should conditionalize your code using appropriate symbols like __VEC__ and __SSE2__ to prevent the compiler from seeing vector code for unsupported architectures for each fork of the universal binary."
     
    So, will the "official" version of Tiger on Intel be optimized for SSE2 as well?
  • sportman
    CodeWeavers has announced that they will provide CrossOver Office for the Mac. This means a great deal for all new and old users of the operating system. Ofcourse this will be for the intel line of apple machines. Now the possiblity of running ppc, linux and windows applications all under one OS is now a reality. Many gamers are hoping for the same to happen with the popular linux application cedega. Cedega is a variation of Wine which allows directx games to run on non windows x86 operating systems.
     
    ---sportman
  • bofors

    DMCA Site Policy Discussion.

    By bofors, in OSx86,

    I have renamed this thread to match the content of the posts below. Clearly, the site's DMCA policy is an important issue and the air needs to be cleared. Furthermore, I have personally played a role in formulating and implementing this site's DMCA policy, so if you are unhappy, I am a partly to blame. I plan on responding to the posts below soon and I will repost the original topic later. I hope the site admins will not prematurely lock this discussion and that no one gets banned for voicing their opinion here. However, please keep this DMCA policy discussion within this thread.
     
    Originally this thread was titled: "What is the problem with reproducing blex0r's results?"
  • depe321

    (OT) Tiger on PS3 ?

    By depe321, in OSx86,

    http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowArticle.act...e=1121156666920
     
    "The operating system has also yet to be clarified. The integrated Cell processor will be able to support a variety of operating systems (such as Linux or Apple's Tiger). "
  • xSuRgEx
    the guys over @ http://forums.krazynonsense.com/showthread...p?p=448#post448
    are talking about the dev dvd for osx86 being leaked to morrrow the day after.
     
    i dont know if there is any truth behind this. but it would be great to finaly get our hands on this fantastic OS.
     
    i hope we can still reach the target for our Dev kit donations. because it will help with the cracking of the TCPA that apple has put into
    osx86.
  • Swad
    Discorocker has compared selected files from three different Dev Kits, and after doing some fancy work with hashes and hex editors, discovered that the files in each dev kit are marked with unique "signatures" (6 bytes long).
     
    At this point, we have no idea what these markers in only a few of the files means. These could be actual signatures that are a function of the TPM. Or it could be something random done at installation. At this point we don't know much more than that, but I thought I'd update everyone! If I've missed any info, feel free to add on.
  • Brickster

    Rosetta Kernel uses TCPA

    By Brickster, in OSx86,

    We found out that the Rosetta kernel uses TCPA/TPM DRM.
    Currently their are no ways known to get the GUI working on non-Apple hardware, with this protected kernel.
    Even with a SSE3 enabled cpu you will never get the GUI.
    Read more about TCPA here: http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html
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