Windows on Mac: Reward Claimed

Stealth · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: Windows on Mac: Reward Claimed

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The contest to boot Windows XP on the Mac is over. The winners will receive $13,854:

Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution.
The instructions to the contest stipulated the following conditions:

- Boot Windows XP on the Intel Mac
- Windows must coexist with Mac OS X and may not interfere with the operation of the other
- Upon starting the computer, the user must be offered a choice of which OS to boot

A photo of the OS selection screen was posted (mirror). Upon booting the Mac, an Apple logo appears on a grey screen. Pressing the down arrow key at this time brings you to a Windows logo on the same grey background. Hitting enter lets you proceed to boot the selected Operating System.

According to this post the final solution will work on the 17" iMac, 20" iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Pro. The full solution should be posted shortly and appears it will include downloadable bootloader.

Update: The final solution has been posted for downloading, but is receiving a lot of traffic.

Update 2:: Windows on Mac sub-forum has been created to organize discussion and troubleshooting on this topic.

Update 3: Support for the 20" iMac is not yet available. There is a FAQ available with a test version for the 20" iMac.

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/03/20060316010829.shtml

Two hackers, "narf2006" and "blanka", claimed a few days ago (Posted March 16th) to have cracked this nut, appear to have written their own bootloader which allows you to select which OS you want to boot from. Screenshots here."

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/03/16/winxp-on-a-mac-contest-is-over-dual-booting-success/

Freakin' ownage for those guys to win a reward for doing that. If I'd known that, I'd probably would have spread the word to some peeps that knew how to program etc.
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Motherfucking Triangles! Being all three sided n' shit, who do they think they are?!

RK-Mara · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:

pwnage
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Comradekil · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:11 am Post subject:

that seems rather pointless, but kool nonetheless
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theboomboom · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

Would be cool, but look at all the unrecognized hardware Sad

That comp would be buggy as hell
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You do not say that the wheel is fatigued, yet the body is as material as the wheel

Stealth · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

pointless?! 0.0

If it gets ya money, ya have the knowledge, then why not? =D

EDIT: ho meh gawd! xD

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2003/t_computer_v_car-p1.php?fromrelated=1
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Motherfucking Triangles! Being all three sided n' shit, who do they think they are?!