Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Build a Trojan Horse PowerMac G5?

WalnutSpice

WalnutSpice

Suspended
Original poster
Jun 21, 2015
456
92
Canton, Oh
I was curious, is it possible to hunt down the exact hardware that was in the intel dev kit G5 and simply rebuild one in a stripped dead G5 case? From what I can tell the motherboard in it is just a standard PC board. Of course it would have to follow regular x86 hackintosh stuff, but it would just be a "because why not" kinda project.
 
due to the way the DTK and its software/OS worked you cant hunt down identical PC hardware (for one the DTK used a TPM with the OS to stop it being installed on regular PCs but that got hacked around) you would also Have to find the software if you wanted to keep it authentic otherwise it would just become another Hackintosh shoved into a G5 case. I did manage to track down the 10.4.1 software used on the DTKs but sadly its a hackintosh distro (atleast i can run it in a VM now) one last thing you cant realy properly run 10.4.1 on anything newer then a Pentium 4 i915 setup... sure you can run it in VMs on newer hardware but getting to natively boot on that hardware... while it may boot from a USB stick (since USB2s protocol has not changed) none of the hardware would even remotely function. one last thing 10.4.1 for intel cant launch any apps coded for intel even if their tiger compatible they just bounce once and die but will run fine in roseta... the only intel apps it can run are the ones it comes with (or compiled by the xcode beta for intel it had) in the end you cant really duplicate a DTK not fully but using a i915 GMA 900 Pentium 4 machine you could get kinda close
Screen Shot 2015-11-24 at 18.11.20.png
 
  • Like
Reactions: WalnutSpice
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back