DeathChill said:
Yeah I'm trying to think back to the last time I clean installed on our Intel Chipsets at work, and what drivers I needed then. We ImageCast most of the computers, and my brain is sludge so I can remember!
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Yeah I'm trying to think back to the last time I clean installed on our Intel Chipsets at work, and what drivers I needed then. We ImageCast most of the computers, and my brain is sludge so I can remember!
You can just go to the Intel website and grab the 945 chipset drivers and hope for the best. If we can get the exact version numbers of each component it'd probably ease the pain of finding drivers, but for now it won't hurt anything to give the 945 chipset drivers a shot.deadturtle said:
I'm so giddy about this, in a horrible horrible stomache sinking way. wheee.....ew....mixed emotions everywhere.
games for me!
games for me!
I would love this feature if ever it could become fully functional. Mostly because even though I'm not a huge gamer, there are some games that I love to death and I'm quite sad I can't play them once I switch to macs in June. Like in rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2 you can kill people, but on rollercoaster 3 for mac, you can't, which is kind of a letdown. It'd also be great for my family because as the only pro-apple person in my family, I could use mac os x and my family could exclusively use windows xp. From a business perspective, if this becomes possible (as in easy to use and anyone could do it and full functional) it would be a great thing, especially for businesses that need special programs only made for windows. It'd also be good if you could use windows at work and when you get home you could use the mac.
Meemoo said:
The contest rules specify it has to be dual booting. Both OS's have to be able to coexist on one machine (not necessarily running at the same time).
celebrian23 said:
Yeah I agree with this post. It would be great to have games to play and using certain programs when you want without having to have 2 different desktops!
wine... where now
http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ off topic
"Darwine project intends to port and develop WINE as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications, and to provide a Win32 API compatibility at application source code level"
" New Darwine release is out, based upon the wine-0.9.7 release. This is the first Darwine release with x86 Mac support."
.........................
Now at 0.9.9
Not emulation and without windows (?)
Wouldn't this be more of a finesse...... no need to even dual boot just fire up the grey apps from OSX (?)
Congrates to the winners of the competition.
http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ off topic
"Darwine project intends to port and develop WINE as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications, and to provide a Win32 API compatibility at application source code level"
" New Darwine release is out, based upon the wine-0.9.7 release. This is the first Darwine release with x86 Mac support."
.........................
Now at 0.9.9
Not emulation and without windows (?)
Wouldn't this be more of a finesse...... no need to even dual boot just fire up the grey apps from OSX (?)
Congrates to the winners of the competition.
Well, it kinda sucks that it has to be custom-tailored for each machine model, but I guess that's to be expected.
As well, it doesn't seem to look like that the x1600XT drivers don't seem to work on Windows thus far. I'm hoping for acceleration of everything, but the Mini should be fine as it uses the standard Intel GMA 950.
Another nice thing is that apparently wireless will work fine as the Broadcom chipset used has a Windows driver available.
As well, it doesn't seem to look like that the x1600XT drivers don't seem to work on Windows thus far. I'm hoping for acceleration of everything, but the Mini should be fine as it uses the standard Intel GMA 950.
Another nice thing is that apparently wireless will work fine as the Broadcom chipset used has a Windows driver available.
celebrian23 said:
Honestly, I cant see any businesses that would get on board with this. It won't be supported by Apple, so why would the business absorb all the burden of support and replacements costs when they could just buy a dell. Maybe a small business of a few employees, but not a business of any size.
Mac's have HFS, XP Recognizes them as EFI because of the Enhanced Firmware Interface, that's the only recognizable thing so it labels it as EFI. XP can only read FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and NSS(??), but you have to have external support for HFS and those. Partition Magic will allow you to create EXT2 volumes and that, not sure if they mount on XP (I don't think so, I've dual booted with EXT2 and Resirfs). Anyways, you're good?decksnap said:What format are the drives in these things? I'm confused because I thought XP doesn't recognize HFS. I guess I'm just slow...
Corel and Borland did try something like this in the Linux world, using the related winelib tools to port WordPerfect and Delphi. Corel abandoned their product years ago, and I don't think that Kylix has seen an update in a few years. That's been about it, and somehow I don't expect things to be different when OS X joins the club.uncle said:
A more likely development would be commercial Wine-based products from Codeweavers that get updated from time to time to support more programs. The Codeweavers stuff runs quite a bit more software than the public Wine, but you do need to check first that the programs you want to run are supported.
That turned out to be instructions for the earlier EFI menu experiments that were discussed on Nakfull Propaganda a while back.shooterlv said:
This is my first post, the lurker rises. I've been following this closely and I am abolutely thrilled that this is a possibility. I purchased my iMac Intel with the hopes that a dual boot could be accomplished. The main reason for buying my iMac was because I am starting a photography busisness and this was the obvious choice. But between 8-5pm I am a Microsoft application and website developer and have been lugging my laptop back and forth from work. No more I say to you!! Now I can develop in Visual Studio and run my photograpy business from ONE machine. I saved my XP Pro hard drive from my personal notebook that died on me. If I could boot off of that and reconfigure the device manager I could just about die. Maybe for some this isn't such a big deal, but for software professionals that need both OS's on one awesome machine this is truly incredible. Just imagine the impact this can have in the real world for a minute. In a place of business like mine where I am the graphic designer/developer I can acheive all my tasks from one machine...wow.
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hopefully they can get the bugs worked out fairly
quickly and reveal the solution to all of us.
not that I would try it though. I don't need windows
for anything at all. not one thing!
hopefully they can get the bugs worked out fairly
quickly and reveal the solution to all of us.
not that I would try it though. I don't need windows
for anything at all. not one thing!
I have read this whole thread, but have some questions. I apologise if they've been covered, but it's hard to read and take in hundreds of posts.
#1. How does one get to become a tester?
#2. When can we expect the full instructions public on the net
#3. What are the known bugs?
Thanks
#1. How does one get to become a tester?
#2. When can we expect the full instructions public on the net
#3. What are the known bugs?
Thanks
dotdotdot said:
You can skip the "stupid tour".
Anyway, clearly they edited the video to prevent boredom. An XP install reboots your computer a couple of times during the install, and takes around 30 mins or more to complete. That's just the edited highlights. Not that I care, I just bought a PowerMac. I won't be switching to the Mactel for at least 18 months.