Comments on: So Apple is finally moving to ARM

By: cs

cs — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 09:51:05 +0000

In reply to James Bryant. I have a feeling it's only a matter of time before that happens.

By: James Bryant

James Bryant — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:46:44 +0000

Hopefully they won’t lock the Mac Desktops/Laptops down like they do with iOS. I started thinking about Boxedwine on Mac/ARM machines and would hate to spend any time on it if it won’t be allowed. Recently I have started putting together simple dynamic recompilers for ARMv7 and ARMv8. I still have lots of work to do, but Boxedwine on a Raspberry Pi 4 can now run x86 games/apps like a 486 computer.

By: MrArgent

MrArgent — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:18:57 +0000

And to think the II was 6502 all the way!

By: cs

cs — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:29:19 +0000

In reply to neozeed. I've had to lay my hands on a G5, but I'd expect it to be nothing short of a screamer with Jag :)

By: cs

cs — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:28:00 +0000

In reply to tenox.

Lumiatosh (950 anyone?)

Pinetosh

🙂

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:05:23 +0000

I think instead of hackintosh there will be Raspitosh? Raspberryintosh? Or something like that.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 06:54:50 +0000

In reply to cs. No doubt about it, SL is one of the greats~! I also love 10.2.7 for the G5, with a SSD. It's wicked fast!

By: cs

cs — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:57:41 +0000

In reply to Chris M.. I coaxed Snow Leopard onto my 2011 MacBook Air. Apart from the graphics being a bit funky after booting and waking from sleep (but eventually it sorts itself out), it works fine. Now that's a blast from the past, with Rosetta still there and no traces of iOSification whatsoever. And of course it flies.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:47:16 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

Catalina is the last to support legacy kexts, but other than that its a clean break from anything “legacy” in OS X. The “move” to ARM won’t be painful since they already trashed a decade of software a year ago.

I got a 2012 Macbook Air here triple booting Mojave, Catalina, and Windows 10 2004. The irony is this fully 64-bit UEFI machine can’t even boot Windows 10 properly in UEFI mode (video breaks when a driver is installed).

Restoring this thing to factory was a retro flashback though, came with 10.8 Mountain Lion! Old enough to still have vestiges of PPC era OS X that I used so much back in the day.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:12:36 +0000

In reply to cs.

I don’t get how so many people are proclaiming the ‘version 11’ being a clean break, when it’s still more of the same.

Obviously it’s still more Darwin, although now it’s without 32bit, no Carbon, no OpenGL it just feels like an empty husk to me.

But I’m sitting here on my trashcan/cylinder enjoying Mojave.