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Hey all, author here, I'm flattered this made it to the front page! You might also enjoy: • Me getting modern Unity games to run on Mavericks: https://apple.st

Hey all, author here, I'm flattered this made it to the front page! You might also enjoy: • Me getting modern Unity games to run on Mavericks: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/414688/how-can-i-run-newer-unity-games-on-os-x-10-9-mavericks/ https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/414688/how-can-i-r... • Me kind-of sort-of getting Mavericks to install on a slightly-too-new Macbook Air: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/402726/how-can-i-attempt-to-boot-an-older-version-of-macos-than-my-hardware-supports https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/402726/how-can-i-a... I'm currently running Mavericks on a Hackintosh with an i7-4790K a GTX 780 6GB. I wrote some more details on how I arrived at this point, and other things I tried, down-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31206278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31206278 No one has asked about security yet, which always seems to come up. My feeling is that (1) my computer is behind a router with up-to-date firmware, (2) I'm using an up-to-date web browser, (3) I'm relatively careful about what software I install, and (4) I regularly back up my data to cold storage. There are absolutely gaps, but in exchange for this small risk, I enjoy using my computer much more than I would otherwise.

occoder 5y ago
Kudos to you! Huge respect for the skills and efforts involved.
lampshades 5y ago
Do you trust the bootloaders that you have to use to run Hackintosh? I haven't run one in several years, but at the time I used the Clover bootloader. It was the best I could find but it was written in Russia. I just couldn't trust it when accessing any sensitive information on my computer. Sorry if you have already answered in another thread.
- rnd0 5y ago
  I haven't played with hackintosh in like 12 years. It was a hassle then a couple years after I stopped I got a real imac. I'm not sure what the current deal with hackintosh is, but I'm vaguely under the impression that there's at least one that is open source, then there's an open source boot loader rEFInd as well. Hopefully someone can confirm or refute my impression.
  - hrrsn 5y ago
    Modern Hackintoshes have moved to using OpenCore as the bootloader, which is open source: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg The older standard was Clover, also open source: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader
    - rnd0 5y ago
      I appreciate the reminder -thanks!
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  I still use Clover. It's a relatively old project and it's completely open source. It has been worked on by a lot of talented developers over the years, some of who are based in Russia—but I'm disinclined to dismiss it out of hand because of that. Particularly since it long predates the most-recent international craziness. The new standard for Hackintosh bootloaders is OpenCore, but I've been using Clover for years and haven't had any problems with it. And, I suspect Clover has been tested more extensively with older versions of OS X, just by the nature of when it was developed and released.
hawflakes 5y ago
Fun stuff! I'm wondering where the updated source for SIMBL is kept. I know the author and he was surprised that people have continued to build on it!
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  SIMBL lives on mostly thanks to w0lfschild, see: https://github.com/w0lfschild/MacForgeFramework https://github.com/w0lfschild/MacForgeFramework. This repo hasn't been updated since 2018; I'm not entirely clear whether the most recent versions of MacForge is still based on SIMBL. The SIMBL on my website uses an unmodified SIMBLAgent binary taken from an older version of w0lfchild's mySIMBL (https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL). However, I recompiled his SIMBL.osax with 32-bit support added back in, since I use a lot of 32-bit apps: https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/MacForgeFramework https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/MacForgeFramework Quick note that I don't really understand this code, I can just tell you that it works, at least on Mavericks.

occoder 5y ago

Kudos to you! Huge respect for the skills and efforts involved.

lampshades 5y ago

Do you trust the bootloaders that you have to use to run Hackintosh? I haven't run one in several years, but at the time I used the Clover bootloader. It was the best I could find but it was written in Russia. I just couldn't trust it when accessing any sensitive information on my computer. Sorry if you have already answered in another thread.

rnd0 5y ago
I haven't played with hackintosh in like 12 years. It was a hassle then a couple years after I stopped I got a real imac. I'm not sure what the current deal with hackintosh is, but I'm vaguely under the impression that there's at least one that is open source, then there's an open source boot loader rEFInd as well. Hopefully someone can confirm or refute my impression.
- hrrsn 5y ago
  Modern Hackintoshes have moved to using OpenCore as the bootloader, which is open source: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg The older standard was Clover, also open source: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader
  - rnd0 5y ago
    I appreciate the reminder -thanks!
Wowfunhappy 5y ago
I still use Clover. It's a relatively old project and it's completely open source. It has been worked on by a lot of talented developers over the years, some of who are based in Russia—but I'm disinclined to dismiss it out of hand because of that. Particularly since it long predates the most-recent international craziness. The new standard for Hackintosh bootloaders is OpenCore, but I've been using Clover for years and haven't had any problems with it. And, I suspect Clover has been tested more extensively with older versions of OS X, just by the nature of when it was developed and released.

hawflakes 5y ago

Fun stuff! I'm wondering where the updated source for SIMBL is kept. I know the author and he was surprised that people have continued to build on it!

Wowfunhappy 5y ago
SIMBL lives on mostly thanks to w0lfschild, see: https://github.com/w0lfschild/MacForgeFramework https://github.com/w0lfschild/MacForgeFramework. This repo hasn't been updated since 2018; I'm not entirely clear whether the most recent versions of MacForge is still based on SIMBL. The SIMBL on my website uses an unmodified SIMBLAgent binary taken from an older version of w0lfchild's mySIMBL (https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL). However, I recompiled his SIMBL.osax with 32-bit support added back in, since I use a lot of 32-bit apps: https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/MacForgeFramework https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/MacForgeFramework Quick note that I don't really understand this code, I can just tell you that it works, at least on Mavericks.