Maxxuss Releases SS3 Emulator and AMD Enabler for OS X 10.4.4 (Intel)

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There is a great deal of activity in the Apple OS X for white-box Intel PC world right now. In a follow-up to my previous posting regarding Maxxuss cracking Apple OSX 10.4.4, SSE2 and AMD machines are now supported. Also, Base-Patches have been updated to version 0.3 (See 2.19.2006 Update below).

Here is a snippet from Maxxuss’ site:

The v0.3 patches require an Intel CPU and SSE3. NX/XD support is not required, and Mac OS X works native and under VMWare.

However, AMD CPUs are supported by the AMD Enabler, and SSE2 CPUs are supported by the SSE3 Emulator…

In other developments, the OSx86 Project Forums were taken down after they were served with a DMCA violation notice. As of February 17, 2006 @ 21:05 ET, the site reads:

We’re sorry to report that despite our best efforts, the OSx86 Project has been served with a DMCA violation notice. The forum will be unavailable while we evaluate its contents to remove any violations present. We thank you for your patience in this matter.

There is no word yet if they’ll be brought back at all. Unfortunately, Apple does not realize that these sorts of tactics don’t work in the x86 world. If Apple pushes harder, then this community will go underground as so many have before. Quite frankly, Apple is wasting its time and should focus on releasing more Intel-equipped hardware than chasing a tiny community concerned with breaking through the TPM puzzle. However, the effect of the OSx86 Project Forum shut down did not go unnoticed and led to speculation of an Apple crackdown when Win2OSX was taken offline. At this time, the IRC channel topic reads:

Site is/was down because it took excessive traffic – IT IS NOT DMCA-RELATED.’ Set by Kal on Fri Feb 17 13:00:08

So it is probably safe to say that there is a chance that Win2OSX may be back whenever they get to paying their hosting bills.

UPDATE (2.18.2006): The OSx86 Project posted an announcement about the forums being brought back online. Apparently they’ve removed the offending posts/links but that doesn’t mean they won’t be hit again. I’m going to suggest people head over to the 360 Insider Forums for searching through old issues. Any new posts should be posted to the Non-Chinese Discussion forum at OSX86China Forum for, ironically, uncensored discussion.

UPDATE (2.19.2006): Maxxuss has released his latest patch set: Patch Solution v1.0 (Search terms on Google Germany: maxxuss patch solution 09.55). This integrates and supercedes all earlier patches. Native or VMWare guest install instructions are on his site. The easiest install instructions are at Radiotux.

UPDATE (2.20.2006): Although it is against my ideology of Free Speech, I have voluntarily removed some links to The Pirate Bay Bittorrent site. I think Google should remove this informtion as well because it tells users where to get OS X 10.4.4 Restore Disc necessary for the install.

UPDATE (2.21.2006): I’ve posted a full entry on Maxxuss’ site being unavailable. All updates on this topic from today will be in that post. Thanks to Zeth for the heads up. Also a review of someone installing a hacked copy of OS X 10.4.4 is posted at Cavemonkey50.

UPDATE (2.23.2006): Apparently Win2osx was sent a DMCA notice at the same time as OSx86 Project. Their provider took down the site while Win2osx removed links to Maxxuss’ site and other infringing material. Although the Apple lawyer later said they were in compliance, the hosting site still hasn’t restored Win2osx. The story is up on Digg (#win2osx ops have asked that people digg the story) and exchange of emails between Win2osx and the Apple lawyer have been made public.

If there are any other new developments, don’t hesitate to shoot me an e-mail or dropping a comment below.

As always, I don’t condone piracy so please don’t do anything illegal.

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February 17, 2006 | Filed Under Tech/Gadgets 

Comments

8 Responses to “Maxxuss Releases SS3 Emulator and AMD Enabler for OS X 10.4.4 (Intel)”

  1. Zeth on February 17th, 2006 7:55 pm

    “As always, I don’t condone piracy so please don’t do anything illegal.”

    What was that company that made loads of white mp3 players that you could use to illegally rip songs off your CDs with? Oh yeah, its Apple…

    Great post, keep up the good work.

  2. Trip on February 19th, 2006 6:18 am

    Now if only there was some way to illegally rip songs off of CDs.

    Oh, that’s right, it’s legal.

  3. Hisham on February 19th, 2006 12:35 pm

    I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. So if you get sued, don’t blame me.

    There is a stark difference between fair use and copyright infringement (not theft). If someone owns an audio CD, they should be able to copy it to cassette or make an MP3 for their personal listening purposes. However, the problem comes in when the songs are shared to people who haven’t bought the album. In that case I think the artists have a legitimate complaint because it hurts their bottom line.

    I do agree that Apple, Sony, and others enable people to infringe on the copyright of artists by that argument is no more plausible than saying a windowless van enables thieves to rob a bank. On the other hand, windowless vans are used in the thousands everyday by all sorts of legal businesses to, for example, transport equipment to job sites. The legal uses outweigh the illegal. For Apple, the iPod allows them to sell music in the range of millions of songs a month. This is a legal usage of their service which, in my opinion, outweighs any illegal copyright infringement occurring.

    The copyright infringement being committed by people downloading copies of Apple’s OSX is not legal for non-OSX owners and questionable for people who have paid for OSX but want to have a backup copy. I believe that their needs to be some legal precedent set for this through a court case.

    With that said, I do think that Apple using the DMCA to squelch First Amendment rights to Free Speech is an abominable crime. Information wants to be free and Apple should stop trying to hamper it because it’s a battle they will lose. So the links are provided in the post and what people do with them is not my responsibility. Quite frankly, I believe people should not even click on them. In other words, just believe someone tells you your neighbor’s door is open does not mean it’s legal to go in.

    Again, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. So if you get sued, don’t blame me.

  4. Zeth on February 19th, 2006 7:00 pm

    “So the links are provided in the post and what people do with them is not my responsibility. Quite frankly, I believe people should not even click on them.”

    Yeah thats a difficulty I pondered. Most of the big news sites that reported on the Maxxuss story did not inlcude links to Maxxuss website, probably for fear of breaking US laws such as the DMCA and getting contacted by Apple’s lawyers.

    However for me, this goes against my years of learning within the academic system, i.e. to always quote your sources with a complete reference so the readers can find it. A Jewish critique of Hilter will still include a full reference to mein kampf so readers can follow the chain of reasoning. Likewise an atheist critique of the Bible will quote chapter and verse.

    When it becomes illegal to link to something, I think such laws really damage learning. The spanish inquisition is back…

  5. Hisham on February 19th, 2006 7:15 pm

    You touch on a great point. The problem is that linking sources may be considered illegal in certain jurisdictions. I want to provide sources to my readers because, like you, I come from an academic background where everything must be cited. If it is not, then it is considered to be fabrication or supposition unless the writer himself did the relevant first-person research. Unfortunately, Apple’s “Spanish inquisition” like tactics scare me because they impinge on what I consider to be my free speech rights protected under the First Amendment of the United States. As it stands, I think that as long as I don’t place any of Apple’s copyrighted materials on my server and continue in my role as an individual using my blog as my personal journal to report of developments, then Apple will have an uphill battle to fight. It’s very hard to play the thought police without Apple earning a ton of bad press. As I said before, people can do what they like but then it’s their responsibility, not mine.

  6. Zeth on February 21st, 2006 11:40 am

    “I think Google should remove this informtion as well because it tells users where to get OS X 10.4.4.”

    Well I don’t Google should ever remove anything, let the bots go free. It is up to the responsibilty of the searcher in my opinion to make the moral judgements, the robots are innocent.

    I have not downloaded the CD, not least because I have a G4 around here, that is quite enough OS X for one house. However the CD has been downloaded 7319 times from that one torrent alone, so it will always be out there.

    In other news, the maxxuss website is currently down…

  7. Hisham on February 21st, 2006 12:28 pm

    HAHA I was being sarcastic with the Google comment. I highly doubt that Apple would sue or intimidate Google any time soon so I think all controversial material should be link via that search engine.

    Any news on why Maxxuss site is down?

  8. _ on September 8th, 2006 3:53 pm

    will sse2 machines could execute iTunes and other sse3 aplications with this updates¿¿??