If, like me, you are a bit of an old school Mac head, or possibly you have an actual genuine need to launch your old Mac OS “Classic” applications, check out the oddly named “SheepShaver”.

Far from doing what it says on the tin, SheepShaver is a PowerPC emulator that lets you run Mac OS 7, 8 or 9 on your Snow Leopard machine. It’s also available for Linux and Windows users too.

Check out SheepShaver at E-Maculation for more info, and also stop by at TidBITS for an overview on how to get up and running.

Along with Intel’s impressive demo of the Light Peak optical device interconnect it seems as though Intel has unveiled some previously unknown part of their company. The guys over at Engadget  noticed that the rig Intel was using for the demo was running MAC OS X. Check out the video at Engadget and see for yourself!

Updated: Well it looks like there is more to this than originally posted. It seems as though Apple came to Intel with the concept for them to develop. More on that here

-Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
-Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser
-Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
-Addresses an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
-Resolves an issue in which the Command-Option-T keyboard shortcut would sometimes bring up the special characters menu in applications such as Mail and TextEdit
-Addresses instances in which auto account setup in Mail might not work
-Resolves issues when sending mail with certain SMTP servers
-Addresses an issue in which Motion 4 could become unresponsive
-Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18

For more info and download links visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3810

SMBIOS
Finally you can specify your smbios.plist location using a device selector prefix like “SMBIOS=rd(0,0)/Extra/smbios.plist”.

VideoROM
You can pass an alternate video ROM image file to the system.

VBIOS
Using this boolean switch, you can control the injection of your video BIOS to device-properties. We got various reports if this switch is really needed to make your graphics device handled correctly by the system.

Visit http://chameleon.osx86.hu for more info and download links.

Credit goes to:
Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef
Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ

Installer
Dr.Hurt has put together an installer package which is available for download here
As mentioned please do not report problems related to the installer to the Voodoo Team.

It’s not in September as previously announced, but maybe a little better. The devs at Apple have pulled through for an early launch of their latest creation, Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6).

With the worldwide downtime of the Apple Store this morning Apple added a pre-order page for 10.6 with the delivery date set for August 28th. The single user pack is available for $29 while the family pack (5-users) is priced at $49.

Said to be the next great step in enhancing your Mac experience, this next version of OS X comes with the latest version of Safari 4, out-of-the-box Exchange support and Apple’s next generation media player, Quick Time X. Among the next generation technologies Apple has included 64-bit support, Grand Central Dispatch and the technology to “unleash the power of graphics processors”, OpenCL.

Included in the box for this release includes the normal installation DVD (you would hope so eh) and documentation. In your box Apple is requiring 1GB of RAM and 5GB of free disk space. Also rumored to be required is an Mac computer with Intel processor, but we shall see about that!

Snow Leopard OSx86 Installation sub-forum
Snow Leopard Post-Installation Discussion sub-forum

In an effort to keep the forum as clean as possible please make sure that you search before making a new thread.

The request is to both users as coders. Voodoo does not provide support for kernels compiled by other people. Since the naming of the third party kernels is often the same as the original name of the voodoo projects, they get a lot of support requests for kernels they don’t use.

So first of all they ask coders to change the kernel version. Instead of reporting ‘voodoo kernel 1.1′ it should be an own kernel, stating it is based on the voodoo kernel.

Secondly, they request end users to direct their support to the coder of the kernel they use, and not to voodooprojects itself.
How can you see wether you’re running a third party kernel or not? If you execute uname -A in a terminal, it should be compiled in IST time zone. All kernels not compiled in IST time zone are not made by the voodoo team.

For more info see the voodooprojects site

In this new release candidate Zef and his team fixed “many anoying bugs” but also added some cool new features. These include things like NVIDIA graphics card detection, automatic RAID booting, HPET enabling on motherboards which don’t have HPET control in the BIOS, setting the built in flag for ethernet cards and hiding non-bootable HFS partitions.

Credit for this new release goes to:
Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef
Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ

Go over at http://chameleon.osx86.hu for more info and download links.

This update is recomended for those who have a problem booting without custom DSDT, and is not needed for those who don’t have a problem.

More info and download link: http://netkas.org/?p=119