Mac-On-Mac Development.

Steven McGrath steven.mcgrath at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 11:01:54 MST 2006


Well, I have plenty of webspace at my site on chigeek.com.  All I am
looking for is coders.  The main obsticle is the kernel driver.  It
simply needs to be updated for 10.4.  From there we can start to work
on other aspects, like sound and networking.

On 1/10/06, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I meant having a VMware so that various versions of MacOS could be run
> within a MacOS on a Mac, not a PC...oh and that is illegal....*sigh*
> why do people pirate Apple products? Especially MacOS X, one of their
> main flagship products...it takes away money they deserve, and I for
> one would hate for them to turn to the ways Micro$oft has turned, what
> with increased prices, the activation system, Micro$oft also has lost
> any innovation...illegally obtaining Apple products takes away their
> money which may cause them to, if it happens enough, go the activation
> way which'd suck...I don't even think they have a registration key
> that is required for install and that could make it's way there if
> people keep bootlegging the PC beta of OS X, plus with less money
> there's less innovation and one of the main reasons I switched to mac
> is because of their great innovation...so c'mon, don't bootleg Apple
> products, of all the illegal activities you could do, do you really
> have to chose to illegally obain Apple products? Why not instead grab
> a copy of Micro$oft Vista?
>
> On 1/9/06, Jose Medeiros <jose.medeiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It all ready runs in VMWARE. I've been running it for several months.
> >
> > Check out this link.
> > http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6290994&blogID=51581816
> >
> > Peace,
> >
> > Jose
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > On 1/9/06, Jose Medeiros <jose.medeiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It all ready runs in VMWARE. I've been running it for several months.
> > >
> > > Check out this link.
> > > http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6290994&blogID=51581816
> > >
> > >
> > > Jose
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > On 1/9/06, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > oh and by the way, perhaps you guys could also mention here if you'd
> > > > be interested in those at VMware writing a version of VMware for the
> > > > mac so that it'd run any MacOS inside of the current OS? Please with
> > > > your reply specify if you'd be interested in this and if I get enough
> > > > yeses I'll send them over to those at VMware to see if we can't get a
> > > > Mac version of VMware developed. :-) If we could get them to develop
> > > > and support VMware for MacOS X it'd be great IMO.
> > > >
> > > > On 1/9/06, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I'd love to have this project more developed, although I am not able
> > > > > to do any coding I could offer webspace for the project...I'd love to
> > > > > see this developed to the point that you could run a full MacOS 9 or
> > > > > below and perhaps in addition all MacOS X versions without having to
> > > > > reboot into the full on OS...VMWare for MacOS X perhaps...VMware X?
> > > > > Anyways I'd love to see this continue to be supported and I hope this
> > > > > project doesn't disappear.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 1/9/06, Steven McGrath <steven.mcgrath at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > I have talked to the developer of Mac-on-Mac, and he doesn't wish to
> > > > > > further develop the application to work on 10.4, or any other future
> > > > > > efforts.  Attached below it the email I received from him.  I am
> > > > > > curious as to if there is anyone out there who would like to further
> > > > > > develop the application, and pick it up from where it was dropped?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello again,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > the problem is not monetary, actually not at all and I would
> > > > > > not feel comfortable accepting donations because I might not
> > > > > > have success. I'm not very good in understanding someone
> > > > > > else's code, especially not if it is rather undocumented.
> > > > > > Samuel Rydh is the founder of the MoL project an probably wrote
> > > > > > most of the code of the VM engine and it appears that he's not going
> > > > > > to continue his development either. Due to the lack of G5 support
> > > > > > and no replies to my mails (to discuss some issues in his code I
> > > > > > don't understand) I lost my ambition to continue the development
> > > > > > of MoM. I prefer to develop things from scratch just to know exactly
> > > > > > what's going on but in case of MoM thats nothing you do within a
> > > > > > couple nights that takes months and probably years.
> > > > > > I suppose the project was doomed by the day the Intel switch was
> > > > > > announced and I did not get any support from some more qualified
> > > > > > open source developers (well there where some who know HTML
> > > > > > and JavaScript but that's not very useful in this case ;-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >        -Sebastian
> > > > > > - Hide quoted text -
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Steven McGrath wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Damn, This Intel switch is causing a lot of waves to stop development
> > > > > > > in areas such as this.  It's sad, because a lot of us would really
> > > > > > > love to continue to use this software.  Many of us as well really
> > > > > > > aren't looking forward to the intel switch, however would love to run
> > > > > > > this in 10.4 and get 10.4 running inside it.  If the issue is
> > > > > > > monetary, please let me know.  I would be happy to donate some money
> > > > > > > to further development and help raise money.  I saw a lot of promise
> > > > > > > in this application, and it would be sad to see it rot.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 12/8/05, Sebastian Gregorzyk <basti at bastix.net> wrote:
> > > > > > >> Hi Steven,
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>> I am curious as to if there is any further development ongoing with
> > > > > > >> MoM?
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> I doubt it, due to the upcoming Intel switch I see no need for a
> > > > > > >> PowerPC VM for OS X.
> > > > > > >> I'm working on some other projects now and I don't think that I'll
> > > > > > >> have time for MoM.
> > > > > > >> Sorry.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>         -Sebastian
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >
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