Mac OSx86

Thank you semthex for posting this:

- copy OS.dmg from the recovery parition of your AppleTV
- use diskutil to mirror it to any parition you like (prefered disk0s3)
- replace boot.efi in /System/Libary/Coreservices/ with the one from your OSX install
- put any 4.8 or 4.9 mach_kernel into / of the drive
- copy over your Extensions from your OSX to AppleTV OS (/System/Libary/Extensions)
- replace Finder with the Finder with patches
- bless boot.efi

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Changelog:

• Support for Windows Vista (32-bit)
• Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime (synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
• Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
• A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information and actions
• Improved keyboard support for Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, and French Canadian
• Improved Windows driver installation experience
• Updated documentation and Boot Camp on-line help in Windows
• Apple Software Update (for Windows XP and Vista)

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Thanks to appletvhacks.net for providing this tutorial.
For more infos on appletv join #appletv on irc.osx86.hu
Visit our Mac OSX86 forum: www.hackint0sh.org/forum

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It appears the Apple TV kernel is not just a kernel itself. It’s holding a lot more.
It is compressed with an odd compression algorithm “complzss”.

After decompressing this file, you’ll notice it contains multiple file headers!
After cutting the file, there are approximatively 100 resulting files.
But without names. Those files are prolly the missing kexts, daemons, etc…

Read a tutorial from semthex on how to extract the kernel here
Join hacking force here

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Apple TV has been hacked to play anything like divx, xvid, …
A modded Apple TV HD image is floating around on some torrent site.

“This is a slightly-modded AppleTV dmg file of all three partitions,
for use when you screw up your own modding - you can restore to this one.
It has a startup script disabling the firewall, with ARD and sshd running.
(ssh -1 frontrow@your.appletv.ip, password frontrow). It’s pre-set for 720p.”

The other interesting thing is that Apple TV runs on common hardware Pentium M,
Intel 945G, Geforce Go 7300. And it might run some form of OS X (possibly 10.5).

Update: The image appears to be a modded 10.4.7 with some of the 10.4.9 kexts.

Upgrade your Apple TV hardrive for a bigger one here

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Not a rumor anymore, here is VMWare Fusion Beta 2 with DirectX 8.1 support!!
Let’s hope they’ll implement DirectX 9 soon enough.
I want to play with aero inside my VM.

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Here we are! The final release! Tiger is done!
10.4.9 Intel SSE3 only NoHPET & NoNX combo update package for Mac OS X86 is out!
Download now!

JaS strikes again! But this time he is not alone.
Kudos to semthex and anonymouss (netkas) for their hard work on the kernel.
And to the entire community of course.
Keep tha shit rollin’!

For the nostalgics, check:

www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2006/10/14/jas-10-4-8-combo-sse2-sse3-is-out.html

Can’t wait for leo!

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