It Lives
Sorry I’ve not posted anything for a while, but we’ve got a ton of work on at the moment, and any free time has been consumed by some rather heroic piss-ups. To make matters worse, the hard drive in my main box went into death throws the other night, and I’ve been busy making sure my iBook’s up-to-date. Not the major crisis it could have been, as I had time to back everything up between BSODs. Plus I was planning to build myself a new windows box in the next couple of weeks anyway.
On a related note, I was speaking to a friend today who’s managed to get a hacked copy of OS X Tiger running on a bog-standard PC (albeit with an IDE rather than SATA drive). Not sure if it really heralds the arrival of cheap hardware running a really good OS, but it’s certainly an interesting experiment. I’ll post the link to it once I manage to get GPG set up on my Mac to decrypt his original email.
Update 18th August: Still not got GPG set up, but see comments for the Tiger on a PC link.
You’re alive!
Anyway, that’d be interesting to look at. Let me know when you get the link.
Alive and kicking - mind you, I’m not the only one that’s been neglecting their blog of late, am I Hanni? ;-)
Everything you need to know about running Tiger on a PC can be found here: OSX86 Project. Caveat: it requires downloading the special Intel developer version of Tiger from Bittorrent, and is therefore horribly illegal. I couldn’t possibly condone such action, but luckily my friend (let’s call him Mr X to add an air of mystery) lives his life on the wrong side of the tracks, and has no such qualms.
It’s a bit fiddly to set up (it’s a bit fussy about hardware), but once it is it’s possible to have the PC dual booting with Windows and OS X. Mr X has got Tiger running on a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 processor and a gig of RAM, and it flies along.