Super haxor

I done gone did it
Got Mac OS X for x86 to run natively from a drive, with help from this handy guide. I did use an external hard drive, but none of the Pentiums in the house could boot from USB drives so I had to dismantle it and install it temporarily in my sister’s computer.
Still using Windows, though, because
1) it’s more legal
2) OSX86 crashes a lot and won’t open some stuff
3) Windows is more practical overall (OH YEAH I WENT THERE)
If anyone wants to borrow my hard disk for a while they can. It’s just sitting there with a 6GB OS X partition. If you’ve got a modern Pentium 4 (supporting SSE2) you can try it out.

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        1. Of course, right after WWDC. But all the patches to get things to work correctly were only implemented recently. This is a native boot from disk using OpenDarwin and VMware.

  1. I wonder if the performance would be smoother if you were using (assuming such will ever exist) an intel compiled version of Panther (10.3) or earlier versions of OS X…

    1. Hmm. I don’t know why it would be.
      Video driver support is nil right now, and a lot of effects, like fading windows while closing, don’t work properly. Effects such as the dashboard rolling out are quite choppy. Everything is extremely useable, though – the slow effect performance doesn’t impede on the actual usability.
      I doubt that they’ll port over earlier versions of OS X.

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