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  • Ed
    If, like me, you are a bit of an old school Mac head, or possibly you have an actual genuine need to launch your old Mac OS "Classic" applications, check out the oddly named "SheepShaver".
     
    Far from doing what it says on the tin, SheepShaver is a PowerPC emulator that lets you run Mac OS 7, 8 or 9 on your Snow Leopard machine. It's also available for Linux and Windows users too.
     
    Check out SheepShaver at E-Maculation for more info, and also stop by at TidBITS for an overview on how to get up and running.
  • Poco

    Intel with a Hackintosh?

    By Poco, in OSx86,

    Along with Intel's impressive demo of the Light Peak optical device interconnect it seems as though Intel has unveiled some previously unknown part of their company. The guys over at Engadget  noticed that the rig Intel was using for the demo was running MAC OS X. Check out the video at Engadget and see for yourself!
     
    Updated: Well it looks like there is more to this than originally posted. It seems as though Apple came to Intel with the concept for them to develop. More on that here
  • Poco

    First Update to Snow Leopard: 10.6.1

    By Poco, in OSx86,

    Nearly 2 weeks after the launch of Snow Leopard and a mere 2 days since the last developer build, Apple has released the first update to their new operating system. In addition to updating your flash player to the latest version this update also includes the usual fixes.

    -Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems

    -Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser
    -Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
    -Addresses an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
    -Resolves an issue in which the Command-Option-T keyboard shortcut would sometimes bring up the special characters menu in applications such as Mail and TextEdit
    -Addresses instances in which auto account setup in Mail might not work
    -Resolves issues when sending mail with certain SMTP servers
    -Addresses an issue in which Motion 4 could become unresponsive
    -Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18
    For more info and download links visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3810
  • Poco

    Chameleon 2 RC3 Released!

    By Poco, in OSx86,

    In addition to adding the long-awaited Snow Leopard extensions loading and 1+TB disk support, this latest release includes changed to the graphics enabler and to the SMBIOS patcher.

    SMBIOS

    Finally you can specify your smbios.plist location using a device selector prefix like “SMBIOS=rd(0,0)/Extra/smbios.plist”.
      VideoROM

    You can pass an alternate video ROM image file to the system.
      VBIOS

    Using this boolean switch, you can control the injection of your video BIOS to device-properties. We got various reports if this switch is really needed to make your graphics device handled correctly by the system.
    Visit http://chameleon.osx86.hu for more info and download links.
     
    Credit goes to:
    Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef
    Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ
     
    Installer
    Dr.Hurt has put together an installer package which is available for download here
    As mentioned please do not report problems related to the installer to the Voodoo Team.
  • Poco
    It's not in September as previously announced, but maybe a little better. The devs at Apple have pulled through for an early launch of their latest creation, Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6).
     
    With the worldwide downtime of the Apple Store this morning Apple added a pre-order page for 10.6 with the delivery date set for August 28th. The single user pack is available for $29 while the family pack (5-users) is priced at $49.
     
    Said to be the next great step in enhancing your Mac experience, this next version of OS X comes with the latest version of Safari 4, out-of-the-box Exchange support and Apple's next generation media player, Quick Time X. Among the next generation technologies Apple has included 64-bit support, Grand Central Dispatch and the technology to "unleash the power of graphics processors", OpenCL.
     
    Included in the box for this release includes the normal installation DVD (you would hope so eh) and documentation. In your box Apple is requiring 1GB of RAM and 5GB of free disk space. Also rumored to be required is an Mac computer with Intel processor, but we shall see about that!
  • Poco

    Snow Leopard Now Permitted

    By Poco, in OSx86,

    With the release of Snow Leopard just around the corner the forums have now opened up discusion about OSx86 Snow Leopard. Feel free to discuss in our new Snow Leopard (10.6) forums:
     
    Snow Leopard OSx86 Installation sub-forum
    Snow Leopard Post-Installation Discussion sub-forum
     
    In an effort to keep the forum as clean as possible please make sure that you search before making a new thread.
  • Tienneke
    Voodoo projects requests, in a recent and quite defensive news post on their site, that third party kernels based on their source code be named differently.
     
    The request is to both users as coders. Voodoo does not provide support for kernels compiled by other people. Since the naming of the third party kernels is often the same as the original name of the voodoo projects, they get a lot of support requests for kernels they don't use.
     
    So first of all they ask coders to change the kernel version. Instead of reporting 'voodoo kernel 1.1' it should be an own kernel, stating it is based on the voodoo kernel.
     
    Secondly, they request end users to direct their support to the coder of the kernel they use, and not to voodooprojects itself.
    How can you see wether you're running a third party kernel or not? If you execute uname -A in a terminal, it should be compiled in IST time zone. All kernels not compiled in IST time zone are not made by the voodoo team.
     
    For more info see the voodooprojects site
  • Tienneke

    Chameleon 2 RC2 is out

    By Tienneke, in OSx86,

    It seems like a rush of bringing out new bootloaders lately. Today Zef released the new release candidate of Chameleon 2.
     
    In this new release candidate Zef and his team fixed "many anoying bugs" but also added some cool new features. These include things like NVIDIA graphics card detection, automatic RAID booting, HPET enabling on motherboards which don't have HPET control in the BIOS, setting the built in flag for ethernet cards and hiding non-bootable HFS partitions.
     
    Credit for this new release goes to:
    Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef
    Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ
     
    Go over at http://chameleon.osx86.hu for more info and download links.
  • Tienneke

    PC_efi v10.1 released

    By Tienneke, in OSx86,

    Netkas released version 10.1 of PC_efi. This version brings support for booting without custom dsdt on pcs on which it would stall before.
     
    This update is recomended for those who have a problem booting without custom DSDT, and is not needed for those who don't have a problem.
     
    More info and download link: http://netkas.org/?p=119
  • Tienneke
    Voodooprojects member ab_73 modified VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext to add support for two finger scrolling to trackpads that normally don't support this feature out of the box in osX.
     
    The modified kext also does a number of smaller fixes. These include:


    Stops that annoying cursor reposition when your finger accidentally touches the scroll regions of the trackpad.
    Two Finger Scrolling Vertical and Horizontal, this apple mac feature is great.
    Pointer resolution changed, gives better control over the speed of the mouse pointer.
    Clicking at boot and after wake up from sleep.
    For more information and download, head over to http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,567.0.html
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