'Windows XP on an Intel Mac' Contest Won

'Windows XP on an Intel Mac' Contest Won

malebolgia on 16 March 2006 - 15:34 · 31 comments & 4734 views

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Following yesterday's video that depicted XP running on an Intel iMac, it looks like the perpetrators—known as narf2006 and blanka—have won the "Windows XP on an Intel Mac" contest. The winners will pocket a $13,854 check for their work, and any further donations to the contest will go towards financing an open-source project based on the solution.

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#1 Toastyone on 16 Mar 2006 - 15:53

Wow congrats to them

13,000.....

#2 SMeK on 16 Mar 2006 - 16:28

thats a nice wod of money

(5 replies) #3 Webgraph on 16 Mar 2006 - 18:15

Now if only we can get it done the other way around (Mac on a regular x86 machine), we'd be all set!

#3.1 Chimera on 16 Mar 2006 - 21:19

You know this has been done right? 10.4.3 was booting soon after the development intel macs were available, and 10.4.5 boots now. There just isn't a lot of driver support.

#3.2 sphbecker on 16 Mar 2006 - 22:15

Are you sure? 10.4.3 was a test version intended to run on test computers. I have never seen 10.4.4 running on a non-Apple computer. Its not legal even if it was possible.

The guy who posted a video of OS X running on his PC was just using VNC. Haven't seen anything after that.

#3.3 Chimera on 17 Mar 2006 - 00:06

Yes I'm sure. No, it's not legal, but when has that stopped people? Google for "maxxuss" and click the like called "Maxxuss homepage". I won't link it here in case it violates any rules.

#3.4 roadwarrior on 17 Mar 2006 - 17:59

sphbecker, you are WAY out of touch. It took Maxxuss less than two weeks to release patches that allowed 10.4.4 to run on generic hardware, and only a few days to patch 10.4.5.

#3.5 xxosvista6xx on 19 Mar 2006 - 22:31

omg ppl, i could get mac running on bout any computer in the world, just the driver support is very poor.... if u watch hac.5 i think i recall they were saying it was legal, well one of there episodes shows you how u can get it workin....

#4 Eli on 16 Mar 2006 - 18:28

congrats

#5 paxa on 16 Mar 2006 - 20:09

congrats to them.....that's some nice work there

#6 yanger on 16 Mar 2006 - 21:08

eh, onmac is down?

(1 reply) #7 sphbecker on 16 Mar 2006 - 22:16

Where are the details? How did he get XP to run on EFI??? Is there some kind of bios emulation layer for EFI that he used?

#7.1 Omn1 on 16 Mar 2006 - 22:34

From my understanding, yes. I believe there is some sort of legacy bios compatability layer. It would be interesting to see the performance of XP on a mac as compared to a similar non-mac computer running XP. Another question is the legality of the whole process, I'm sure some universities would love to get ahold of this technology, imagine the cost savings of not having to maintain two seperate Windows and Mac computer labs. I'm almost positive that slipstreaming the new information onto the XP CD is against policy, all that needs to be done is finding a path through a loophole. Maybe there is a chance of my getting a MiniMac after all... I would love to have a computer that can run 3 of the most popular OS's natively without environment emulation

#8 beardly on 17 Mar 2006 - 01:08

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/windows...olution-posted/

Solution posted here for easy access.

(1 reply) #9 neufuse on 17 Mar 2006 - 03:46

now we just need to get it to dual boot with no problems

#9.1 Reapah on 17 Mar 2006 - 04:23

Narf's solution allow you to dual boot.

(2 replies) #10 Axon on 17 Mar 2006 - 06:46

I've succesfully installed this fix on my MacBook pro, and it is really, really cool. The Dual Boot is so well done and XP is screaming fast on it. Just need to figure out how to get the drivers for the video card working.

#10.1 sphbecker on 17 Mar 2006 - 13:37

Macs use standard GPUs so I assume you would just need to get either nVidia or ATI's latest universal driver. I would be more worried about finding a way to get the AirPort card working.

#10.2 neufuse on 17 Mar 2006 - 16:43

Airport card is just a standard Intel WiFi chip, just use their A/B/G drivers... Graphics card is just a standard ATI mobility card... just find drivers for that

(1 reply) #11 mayamaniac on 17 Mar 2006 - 06:49

says it works on intel iMacs. I'm more interested in the Mac Mini. Anyone got XP running on a mac mini?

#11.1 sphbecker on 17 Mar 2006 - 13:39

If it is an Intel Mac Mini then the process would probably be the same. XP will not run on a G4 in any way other then VurtualPC or other emulation.

(1 reply) #12 DarkSim905 on 17 Mar 2006 - 09:21

@ Axon: In XP, what does it display the clock speed @ ? Does a good chunk of the hardware work as is?

#12.1 sphbecker on 17 Mar 2006 - 13:43

I would assume it would be normal. Once you get past the boot loader then XP is just using a Intel computer like it normally does.

(7 replies) #13 m-head on 17 Mar 2006 - 20:35

"The winners will pocket a $13,854 check

Should be cheque.

#13.1 tlogank on 17 Mar 2006 - 21:03

not here, it is check.

#13.2 MajinDark on 17 Mar 2006 - 22:13

Cheque is Canadian, check is American, from what I understand.

#13.3 Aeros on 17 Mar 2006 - 23:12

Why not Czech while we are at it?

>.>

#13.4 Jon on 18 Mar 2006 - 02:02

Cheque is also English. Our American friends like to simplify things as much as possible.

Last edited by Jon on 18 Mar 2006 - 15:38

#13.5 Glassed Silver on 18 Mar 2006 - 10:37

hah^^
true true...
theres even a shortcut for ok: k
i think thats american as well, i like it

-fm

#13.6 M2Ys4U on 18 Mar 2006 - 20:58

'Check' in this contest is yet another American bastardisation of the English language

#13.7 Jstphish on 19 Mar 2006 - 20:58

theres even a shortcut for ok: k
You mean "okay."

'Check' in this contest is yet another American bastardisation of the English language
Languages aren't static, they are always changing. My bet is in 100 years if the U.S. still exists American-English will differ even greater from the U.K.

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