There is no prize for second: The Windows on Intel Mac saga
This post was published 3 years 8 months 6 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I feel so bad for this guy. Nothing like having your had work eclipsed by someone else. Especially when 13k is on the line.
I had hoped to use this blog entry to post step-by-step instructions for installing Windows XP on shiny new MacIntels, but alas, it appears that someone has beaten me to it. The winners, narf2006 and blanka, have been working on the problem for quite a while and have been posting pictures of their progress over the past few weeks. Today they uploaded a video showing a fresh install of XP on an iMac and they submitted their solution to sud0n1m for testing. Assuming the testing goes well, they will be declared the winners and will share the $13k prize.
While I’m disappointed not to have won, I’m encouraged to see that our approaches were remarkably similar. We both wrote custom EFI CSM drivers to emulate the BIOS functions Windows requires to boot. I’m very curious how they managed to get VGA working, and I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t work in either the Mini or the Macbook Pro, as it looks like they did all their development on an iMac.
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Awesome. Now I just hope that the iBook replacements will be able to run WinXP native as well using the same scheme. Imagine that, businesses dropping typical PC machines in favor of dual boot Macs.