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Windows XP up and running on Intel iMac
Posted: 2006-03-13 04:04pm
by Durandal
Apparently, someone wrote his own CSM to
get the job done. Yes, now you too can run an inferior operating system on your Intel iMac.
But the guy doesn't detail how he did it. He's just got pictures. It
looks authentic, but the people running
The Contest will have the final say.
Posted: 2006-03-13 05:55pm
by Admiral Valdemar
I don't care. All I know is, Jack Bauer voices the ad to the Moby track from the end of Heat, which is all that caught my attention.
Posted: 2006-03-13 07:31pm
by Seggybop
It could be something like VNC, but I think it's real since narf demonstrated some progress he made in the past. It's cool, but I think it would be best to direct efforts toward DarWINE so that we can evade use of win altogether.
Posted: 2006-03-14 01:46am
by Praxis
That's awesome. I hope they write some kind of driver for it to use the Mac graphics card though.
I suppose the alternative is to get an Intel PowerMac when it comes out and put a PCI PC graphics card in it in addition to the Mac card.
The Intel Macs still use Mac cards, right? Not regular PC GPUs?
Also, it seems someone else has also managed to do it...
http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/legacyboot/
Posted: 2006-03-14 08:58am
by Admiral Valdemar
Could this not be done using VMWare or XEN?
Posted: 2006-03-14 09:01am
by Pu-239
That's slow/games not playable.
Posted: 2006-03-14 01:00pm
by Seggybop
Praxis wrote:I suppose the alternative is to get an Intel PowerMac when it comes out and put a PCI PC graphics card in it in addition to the Mac card.
The Intel Macs still use Mac cards, right? Not regular PC GPUs?
They use normal PC cards now. No need to reflash the bios anymore.
Posted: 2006-03-14 03:47pm
by The Kernel
Good thing they figured this out, I suspect a lot of people will want to try Vista on a Conroe Mac, and from early indications EFI support won't be there out of the box.
Posted: 2006-03-14 05:05pm
by Beowulf
Seggybop wrote:Praxis wrote:I suppose the alternative is to get an Intel PowerMac when it comes out and put a PCI PC graphics card in it in addition to the Mac card.
The Intel Macs still use Mac cards, right? Not regular PC GPUs?
They use normal PC cards now. No need to reflash the bios anymore.
Well... the only Mac that accepts add in cards IIRC, is the Power Mac, which has yet to be released in a Intel form.
Posted: 2006-03-14 08:27pm
by Praxis
True, but it gives me hope for the Intel PowerMac.
EDIT: I don't know about Narf's solution, but BAMBIOS also has compatability mode for VGA BIOS specificly tailored to the Intel iMac's graphics card, so once its working theoretically games should be able to fully use the Radeon X1600...
Posted: 2006-03-16 07:37pm
by Shogoki
Update:
Blah blah linkity blah
It has been confirmed, the contest has been won and the solution shall be released to the public soon, scratch one more for the community trashing stupid security measures, took them just 20 days to make the intel mac windows compatible
Posted: 2006-03-17 11:45am
by Praxis
Shogoki wrote:Update:
Blah blah linkity blah
It has been confirmed, the contest has been won and the solution shall be released to the public soon, scratch one more for the community trashing stupid security measures, took them just 20 days to make the intel mac windows compatible
Stupid security measures? Apple did nothing to prevent Windows from booting.