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June 13, 2008

I r still cool ;)

June 13th 2008 Posted to Apple, Leopard, pc efi

It was very hard but I anyway made it.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s first in World MacOSX snow kitty,

Running in full 64-bit mode (means 64-bit kernel) on PC

woot.

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June 11, 2008

Something new in this world

June 11th 2008 Posted to Apple, Leopard

Recently i received example of efix, from www.efi-x.com , it’s hardware which plugs to your usb port.

I went to friend, got his macosx 10.5.2 repair disk for macbook.

and tried to boot from it with efix

and it worked, zomg

the only problem i had - i have repair disk for macbook, so it doesn’t want to install on non-macbook, retail dvd should work.

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May 28, 2008

10.5.3 is out, updating is same as to 10.5.2

May 28th 2008 Posted to Apple, Leopard

jsut use this guide for 10.5.3.

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ToH kernel source patch released.

May 28th 2008 Posted to Apple, Leopard

We diceded to release patch for kernel source of macosx.

It misses apple’s key for encrypted apps, but u can easily find it over network and add to code(remove #error line after it)

Please respect hard work of guys made it (List in readme) and don’t violate license for patches.

we open the source hoping someone who has the time and is willing to code would code the following: amd64, speedstep&sleep, etc.

Here is license text:

Redistribution and use in binary or source form for direct or indirect commercial purposes, with or without modification, is stricktly forbidden.

Redistributions in binary or source form for non-commercial purposes must reproduce the above license notice, this list of conditions, notice about author(ToH) and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Link to download - http://www.mediafire.com/?4o4cs0xnyda

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May 26, 2008

PC_efi brings leopard to atom(R).

May 26th 2008 Posted to Uncategorized

One of our anonymous sources managed to run Leopard on atom based system he got.

Atom cpu has ssse3 and 64-bit, so it runs unmodified osx leopard kernel with efi emulator.

Detailed specs is:

northbridge: 945gc
CPU : Atom 1.6 Ghz
sound chip: ALC662
network RTL8102EL

512 MB RAM

osx missdetects cpu cache size, but it’s only cosmetic, not performance hits because of it

Here is some screenshots of tests which shows atom performance with osx.

xbench

geekbench 1.0 32-bit - 84.7 points

geekbench 1.0 64-bit - 90.8 points

“The machine could perform better with more RAM memory”

So you can see what performance will have atom based apple portable macs.

oh, and btw, this thing could run of a solar panel

UPDATE

here some techincal info from system:

hw.ncpu = 2
hw.cpufrequency = 1600000000
hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1
hw.cpusubtype: 4
hw.cputype: 7
hw.logicalcpu: 2
hw.physicalcpu: 1
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM
machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz

so it looks like Atom uses hyperthreading.

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April 15, 2008

psystar - liars

April 15th 2008 Posted to Apple, pc efi

That guys said they sell computers with efi v8 emulator..

They forgot to mention author of emulator, so it’s looks like they made efi v8.

But u know who did it (http://netkas.org/?p=41)

So, this is violation of my authorship rights on pc efi v8.

pc_efi v8 now had been reloaded, and includes very basic license

which denies any commercial using. also updated with actual smbios.

can be found in topic of channel #leopard in irc.osx86.hu

text of license

License

EFI V1 - V8

Redistribution and use in binary form for direct or indirect commercial purposes, with or without modification, is stricktly forbidden.

Redistributions in binary form for non-commercial purposes must reproduce the above license notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the names of EFI V1-V8 copyright owner nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived direct or indirect from this software.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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