BootX (Use MacOSX directly on your Pegasos)
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Crumb
    Posts: 730 from 2003/2/24
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    Pavel Fedin, author of MosNet, MOS floppy disk driver and other goodies is working on BootX, a modified Darwin Kernel that could allow your Pegasos to boot MacOS X directly without the need of MOL. Unlike MOL this would allow us to use 3D gfx cards directly and use OSX to the maximum.

    If I remember correctly BBRV offered years ago 2000$ to the first person who made OSX boot natively on Pegasos.

    I think that it may be a good idea to start a bounty for this. 2000$+ the donations of MorphZone members would surely motivate Pavel to continue working in this wonderful project.

    This could help to make our Pegasos2 more useful. What do you think about this project?

    @Thargan:

    What's up with MorphBounties? is it possible to create new bounties?
  • »26.10.06 - 10:16
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  • Just looking around
    Posts: 9 from 2003/10/10
    That is a damn cool idea Crumb.

    I really hope it gets materialized!
  • »26.10.06 - 10:19
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  • ASiegel
    Posts: 1369 from 2003/2/15
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    @ Crumb

    Quote:

    What's up with MorphBounties? is it possible to create new bounties?


    Please note the "Morph" in "MorphBounties." What you are proposing has no relation to MorphOS whatsoever. Feel free to suggest a bounty system on other community websites which are not focused on a specific OS.

    Also, there are legal implications for a bounty like this which MorphZone should not get into without a very good reason. That said, it is a nice project nonetheless.
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    i agree, it has nothing to do with morphos and the legal issues are too important to be ignored. It can only remain a hobby project, but u can still make a donation to Sonic direclty i suppose.
  • »26.10.06 - 10:36
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Crumb
    Posts: 730 from 2003/2/24
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    @JoBBo

    You are probably right (specially about the legal problems for MorphZone).

    Maybe it would be enough if BBRV confirmed us that their offer of 2000$ is still valid so Pavel Fedin could continue working on it.
  • »26.10.06 - 10:38
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 408 from 2004/7/15
    From: Russia, Moscow
    Hey, be warned, this is an experimental project. This means that the success is not 100% guaranteed.
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    JohnFante
    Posts: 156 from 2006/9/4
    From: Copenhagen
    Even thou it sounds sweet! :-)
  • »08.11.06 - 08:21
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  • MorphOS Developer
    zukow
    Posts: 642 from 2005/2/9
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    @Sonic
    any news about the project?
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    pixie
    Posts: 147 from 2003/9/5
    From: Am*ga
    If you'd paid for the OS you could even stick it in the dish washer :-P

    Those greedy capitalists :roll:
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Sir_Lucas
    Posts: 112 from 2006/4/23
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    That's a fantastic announcement. Please do inform us about this "experimental" ,yet very exciting project.

    [ Edited by Sir_Lucas on 2006/11/8 12:22 ]
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    amiades
    Posts: 231 from 2005/6/2
    From: Asturies, Spain
    What are the legal issues? just to know, I don't know even what kind of license MacOS have... Is there any kind of legal issue in trying to run MacOS in anything that is not a mac?
  • »08.11.06 - 12:49
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    GK_LKA
    Posts: 481 from 2004/3/28
    From: Hungary
    I think no.

    But this project is very interesting, please keep us informated ;)
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  • »08.11.06 - 13:01
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  • Cocoon
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    dOpus
    Posts: 42 from 2005/7/30
    From: Romania/Timisoara
    Great project,i use 80% MacOSX and recently i get an iPod but not working under mol,maybie bootx is better hardware compliant for this.

    Let the Force be with you an make BootX ;-)
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  • Caterpillar
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    neongod
    Posts: 34 from 2006/6/14
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    This is a very interesting project indeed. I would love to use bootx, if it would provide better hw support than mol. Usable, working sound and 3d is really missing at the moment, and it's not so comfortable to boot linux kernel and mol every time you want to use osx (even if it's a molk or pegxmac). The overall osx speed feels much slower compared to g4 macs, as without 3d support the gui is quite slow.

    Let us know any news about BootX. How is it going? ;)
  • »09.11.06 - 07:31
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 408 from 2004/7/15
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    It will be resumed next week. Now i've freed 2 evenings per week to work on any project.
    Sorry, i can't be here more frequently. I am the chief of programming dpt in my company now and have got lots of work to organize it).
    iPod, iBook, iMac,... iRobot?
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    pOS
    Posts: 216 from 2003/11/14
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    Any news on this topic ?
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    ThePlayer
    Posts: 1068 from 2003/3/24
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    Yes Sonic any news???
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  • »22.01.07 - 13:15
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    I'm here...
    Paused in favor of a small commercial project. This project involves 1284parallel.device development so it's top priority now. However this also involved finishing a LED dongle to be used as debug tool. :)

    [ Edited by Sonic on 2007/1/24 16:33 ]
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Sir_Lucas
    Posts: 112 from 2006/4/23
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    Hi there Sonic ;)

    Any news about SuperSonic BootX project?
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    GK_LKA
    Posts: 481 from 2004/3/28
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    Yes, any news?
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Sir_Lucas
    Posts: 112 from 2006/4/23
    From: Poland
    Please do forgive me for my persistence but has the BootX project been cancelled ?

    I am very curious. It woud be a great pity and an enormous loss if it has already been cancelled :(
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    I think Sonic is only busy at the moment, just give him some time to answer this.
  • »12.03.07 - 20:06
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    ThePlayer
    Posts: 1068 from 2003/3/24
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    Imho BootX would be one of the killer Apps that one could use on Pegasos!
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Sir_Lucas
    Posts: 112 from 2006/4/23
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    @SoundSquare

    Maybe you're right. Therefore, it means that we are to expect the unexpected 8-) Nevertheless, it would be nice to hear some news about this luring project.
  • »13.03.07 - 21:14
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