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@Puttabong
InfiniteMac community contributor with 933 recorded dispatches, 32 lead technical dossiers (1,417,056 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 5,493,362 historical readers.
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Ranked #6 · 32 dossiers
Thread Reach
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Lead Dossiers
32
44,283 avg reads / dossier
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#2
Joined 2008-01-04
Active Window
2008–2020
2008-01-04 → 2020-03-01
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
OS X: Leopard 10.5.1 by zephyroth · Board: DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D · CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ · Graphic: Colorful GeForce 7600 GT · HD: Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 300 GB · Drives: LG GDR-H30N-BB, Plextor PX-810UF · Control: Apple Keyboard, Apple Mighty Mouse
However, if you want to build a new machine, I highly recommend an Intel Core 2 Quad Machine!
- Archive Standing
- #8 of 6,691 by Dispatches (533 notes) · #6 of 3,454 by Author Readership (1,417,056 reads across 32 dossiers) · #16 by Thread Reach (5,493,362 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #2 · Joined 2008-01-04 · Site Administrator
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- AMD OSx86 (40) · NVIDIA GeForce (27) · AHCI / SATA (12) · Retail DVD / USB (10) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (8) · ATI Radeon (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 9 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @Puttabong (32)
1,417,056 cumulative reads on threads started by @Puttabong
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Catalina 10.15 12 years after the launch of this forum, I'm running macOS Catalina, Version 10.15 (19A583). InfiniteMac was started at the time of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. | Lion – Catalina | 648,930 reads 2020-01-12 · 4 notes |
| XBench Scores Post your XBench score, along with your hardware specs here! Nice Pictures will be added to mac.kb ot.de/leopard-amd-xbench-scores/ This is enough to have Leopard running very nicely! OS X: Leopard 10.5.2, EFI & Guid Board: DFI LanParty UT… | 10.X Core | 104,353 reads 2008-01-10 · 95 notes |
| fix Rosetta (Crashing PPC Applications) First of all you should check whether Rosetta is installed properly. To do this, launch a Terminal & type: /usr/libexec/oah/translate If Rosetta runs fine, it should give this output: If it doesn't work and says " Illegal instruction ", "… | 10.X Core | 75,917 reads 2008-05-17 · 12 notes |
| 'About this Mac' Graphics Please don't hesitate to post your About This Mac Graphics into this thread | Software & Kexts | 53,545 reads 2008-01-07 · 109 notes |
| What mouse are you using with your (Hack)Mac What mouse do you use and why? I've been using Apple's Mighty Mouse (with cable) for a long time and I love it. I wouldn't want to miss the tiny 360-degree scrolling ball and the design of the mouse. However, I have to admit that I haven't… | Hardware & Dev | 47,452 reads 2009-04-18 · 62 notes |
| Hardware Thread OS X: Leopard 10.5.1 by zephyroth Board: DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Graphic: Colorful GeForce 7600 GT HD: Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 300 GB Drives: LG GDR-H30N-BB, Plextor PX-810UF Control: Apple Keyboard, Apple… | 10.X Core | 46,836 reads 2008-01-05 · 66 notes |
| Member Nationalities Where are you from, friends? | General | 41,477 reads 2008-01-05 · 232 notes |
| Desktop Thread Here we go friends, post your Desktops! | Software & Kexts | 37,712 reads 2008-01-05 · 65 notes |
| Which Mac(s) do you use or own Which Apple Macs are you using at home or at work? : Who still owns a classic mac, such as the Macintosh Classic II? | Hardware & Dev | 35,779 reads 2009-04-23 · 31 notes |
| Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread The second revision of zephyroth's Leopard 10.5.1 AMD DVD has been successfully shipped to the first beta testers. Several Bugs have been fixed: - EFI v.8 - No more Lan Freezes whilst using nForce LAN - Bootloader has been fixed -… | Leopard 10.5 | 30,877 reads 2008-01-08 · 296 notes |
| How to modify/change the 'About This Mac' dialog Always wanted to get rid of the Unknown Processor, which is showing in your 'About This Mac' dialog? Simply open the Finder, then press CMD + N to open a new window. Now, navigate to: Replace YOURLANGUAGE with the language file which is in… | Software & Kexts | 29,876 reads 2008-01-07 · 9 notes |
| Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3x Control Center [float=right] PCWiz Computer has released another great application for OSx86 machines today. The Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3x Control Center is dedicated to allow easy installation of fixes and drivers with only a few clicks. It works fine with… | Releases & News | 29,531 reads 2008-08-19 · 5 notes |
| Welcome Welcome to the AMD Hackintosh Forums! Enjoy your stay and expect to get help regarding your questions and problems. | 10.X Core | 29,374 reads 2008-01-04 · 25 notes |
| Apple Tablet If Apple releases a 9.6" multi-touch tablet computer with built-in 3G wireless connectivity in February 2010 at a price point between like $399 and $799, are you interested in buying one? | Hardware & Dev | 27,705 reads 2009-10-11 · 11 notes |
| New 10.5.2 Desktops Please attach a screenshot of your latest zephyroth 10.5.2 Desktop. I am collecting a few of them (the best) for a new post at InfiniteMac, which will show the desks of our Community The About this Mac Dialogue must be openeded/shown! - No… | General | 22,487 reads 2008-03-20 · 21 notes |
| Your native language Do you miss a subforum for your native language? Please don't hesitate to let us know and we'll add one as soon as possible. Yours sincerely, The Management | International | 21,972 reads 2009-08-22 · 8 notes |
| Infinite Mac News Authors If you would like to be a news author for Infinite Mac , please don't hesitate to contact me. Requirement: Good Osx86 Knowledge and a working Osx86 Machine . | 10.X Core | 15,664 reads 2008-03-12 · 4 notes |
| Unofficial leo4all modification on the bay - leo4x200 According to the InsanelyMac User hughson there is a new torrent on the bay called leo4x200.iso ADoNuT333 claims that it looks like a homebrew for the Compaq Presario 2000 to support the x200 graphics set . Eddie11c, could you please… | 10.X Core | 14,613 reads 2008-05-13 · 15 notes |
| New Desktop & About This Mac Thread // No Discussions, only Images shall be posted here, please. No offensive Background Images as well :) // My Desktop of January 23th! Post both a High Quality Desktop Shot, as well as your 'About this Mac' Dialogue Desktop -> | Software & Kexts | 12,930 reads 2008-01-24 · 46 notes |
| iPhone 3G revealed at WWDC 2008 As expected, the 3G iPhone 2.0 has been released today, 9th June at the World Wide Developer Conference Keynote in San Francisco. It has caused lots of euphoria! Read more at our article: iPhone 3G revealed at WWDC 2008 | General | 12,225 reads 2008-06-09 · 8 notes |
| Average Age How old is the Osx86 AMD Hacking Community? : ) | General | 10,834 reads 2008-01-29 · 76 notes |
| Mac Terminal Sing Songs & speaks german Heh, Turn up your volume and open the Terminal, then type one of the following commands. Awesome! | General | 10,295 reads 2008-06-28 · 7 notes |
| Parallels Desktop updated to 3.0.5600 Parallels Inc. has updated its virtualization application Parallels Desktop to a new version 3.0.5600. It now supports Windows Vista SP1 & Windows XP SP3. More Info --> Parallels Desktop updated to 3.0.5600 Download ---> Parallels Desktop… | General | 9,145 reads 2008-05-11 · 11 notes |
| Happy New Year We'd like to wish a happy new year to everybody! May all your wishes come true. And tonight, have a great New Year's Eve! Thanks to all of our members and contributors for making 2008 a successful year for the OSx86 Community. We're very… | General | 7,246 reads 2008-12-31 · 4 notes |
| Mac OS X Mod (Chiptunes) Player I'd love to be able to listen to my collection of chiptunes (.xm format, mostly) on my Mac, but there doesn't seem to exist a decent application for this purpose. The only one I've found appears to be CocoModX, which is buggy and crashes… | Leopard 10.5 | 6,926 reads 2008-04-18 · 8 notes |
| BrokenStones has been closed BrokenStones has been closed broken stones.cn/ torren tfreak.com/malaysian-government-orders-immediate-torrent-site-blackout-080627/ On 6/27/2008 around 8 AM GMT the BrokenStones server was suspended by its host. Too bad, I enjoyed the… | General | 6,653 reads 2008-06-29 · 4 notes |
| Mac OS X/XI cat names Which cat names will Apple choose for future Mac OS releases? Here's my speculative guess. What do you guess? Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.7 Lion How will they continue when no more cat names are left? | Hardware & Dev | 5,974 reads 2009-07-01 · 4 notes |
| ZDNet OSx86 Article "Modified Mac OS X Leopard images called Kalyway and Iatkos are ideal for Intel-based systems, while PCs with AMD processors are best served by the Zephyroth variant. A recently published image that covers all platforms well is Leo4All. A… | General | 5,824 reads 2008-05-15 · 9 notes |
| Digg Just in case you haven't dugg Zeph's Release yet, feel free to do so The more diggs, the more people will explore the Community! Kind Regards, and post here if you dugg! | 10.X Core | 4,502 reads 2008-03-02 · 1 notes |
| Apple Lisa Demo from 1983 I love this cool demo of Apple's Lisa! : URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35vpsPIwlU Enjoy! | General | 3,910 reads 2009-02-26 · 4 notes |
| Leo4all - Dedicated Wiki ---> osx86leo4all.wik idot.com | Leopard 10.5 | 3,315 reads 2008-03-17 · 2 notes |
| If you're a Mac enthusiast... ... join the Mac enthusiasts usergroup! : | General | 3,177 reads 2009-02-13 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @Puttabong contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Catalina 10.15 “Yeah, I know ... i also spent a lot of time on hackintosh ... Hi! Great to see you around.” | Lion – Catalina | 2020-03-01 648,930 dossier reads |
| Intel GMA X3100 Fix | 10.5.6 “Here you go: laptopneeds.infinite mac.com/Utils/Intel%20GMA%20X3100%20Fix.pkg” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-03 246,245 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “Hi ng.alvin, Please check your inbox. Cheers, Puttabong Ps. The first post has been updated (attachment instead of link).” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-04 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Am I reading right? The 'Mouse movement bug' has finally been put to an end? Wonderful! Thank you XNU Dev Labs.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-11 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “I just switched back to two cores, because a single core is just too slow for most applications I use.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-08 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “I just added the cpus=1 flag to my boot.plist, it's time for me as well... The only application that seems to be able to cause the mouse movement bug is Photoshop CS3. I use it a lot at the moment. Rebooting now.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-08 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “It seems like I just experienced the Mouse Movement Bug while playing around with Photoshop for a few hours... Ouch.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-07 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Amazing News! I can't wait for Voyn1x and Rogue to confirm that it works - I hope. Thanks ClawHammer.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-06-25 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Voyn1x, we have the same CPU, hence I don't believe the mouse stuttering problem is related to Dual Core. Actually I can remember that I had this problem a long time ago, when I was starting with OSx86. I think it must be due to (driver?) i…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-06-20 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Voyn1x, if you haven't already, try Leo4Allv3. It might solve the problem. However, I use zephy's release and it seems to work fine, even after about 10 hours of uptime.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-06-18 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “I'm very happy with my AMD as well Works flawlessly since 10.5.1 Rev.2 Beta (Out of the Box for my system), which I still use - (updated with eddie11c's updater to 10.5.2)” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-28 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Sorry if this has been thought or said already, or if it's wrong, but I didn't have the time to read any posts in the thread! I remember exactly this Issue! However, this only occured with an early 10.5.1 version for me. Now it never happen…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-21 134,652 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “More Systems can be added to mac.kb ot.de/leopard-amd-xbench-scores/#more-7 If you like to see yours there, PM me, and I'll include it.” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-11 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “I added a few of our results here: mac.kb ot.de/leopard-amd-xbench-scores/” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-10 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “HFS+, correct! lanxxx: I don't know how much difference it makes compared to other Disks of this kind! But it's fast and solid, I never had any problems!” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-10 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “Hi iccthedral, here's a little more detail about my disk test results. You are right - It's indeed a DiamondMax 10! I use the default NForceATA which was included in 10.5.1 RC2!” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-10 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “zuz242, it works fine here on my ZephMac, no matter which browser I use Safari, Omniweb, Firefox & Camino.” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-10 104,353 dossier reads |
| XBench Scores “Nice to hear that after all, crawle :>! Very good.” | 10.X Core | 2008-02-10 104,353 dossier reads |
| LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion “[cite]lungkaoHow to take print screen on Apple? so I can upload my image?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-24 91,699 dossier reads |
| Installing OS X on an AMD Phenom “Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device"” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-11 83,907 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “macprodan, http://osx86.wikidot.com/how-to-s#toc3” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-19 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “kuorosh, http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=88079&view=findpost&p=628446” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “scottah, You can download it for free. Windows Users 1 - Download one program called GrabIt at "she mes.com" 2 - Go to "asti news.de/xtest" and put your e-mail there to receive an server username and pass to connect to usenet (it is a free …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “subsonic, I'm in Germany, and I wish I was in Spain. I love the sun! Got enough of Winter now... at least a little spring sun here!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “HCE, only 28 and 29 are not completly uploaded yet. We'll have to wait for zephy to show up, then he'll fix it. Don't worry! About Usenet: yes, indeed, the speed is lovely. I'm downloading at a stable 1,5 mb/s” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “braindead803, the iso can be extracted from the rar parts.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=de-de&q=windows+usenet+clients&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “It took me about 10 minutes to download the first 23 parts using Usenet.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “Check the Announcement at the Front Page of the Forums.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “Tutorial for Mac: 1. Download Unison (pa nic.com/unison/) 2. Go to "asti news.de/xtest" and sign up for a Free Account 3. Check your E-Mail 4. Install Unison and enter the Login information that you received to your E-Mail by Astinews 5. Se…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “laxattack, neither have I --- Cleaned up all these rumours, you should only pay attention to zephyroth's declarations, if you want to rely on the truth.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “Feel free to keep on posting guys, just try not to overheat the server, lol” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-16 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “I personally don't like the Idea either. FTP -> Torrent -> Newsgroups -> Public Backup Storage (like esnips) Why not like that? There are better ways to spread the image to the public!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-16 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “subsonic, I experienced the slow loading as well, so I just restarted Apache! Please tell me if it's better!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-16 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “Awesome news zephyroth, keep up the good work! I'm enjoying the spring sun... lovely!” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-16 74,206 dossier reads |
| ATI Video Kexts “Hey Tim, sorry but that isn't even working successfully, here's why: Core Image: Software Quartz Extreme: Incompatible No QE/CI, that means the driver doesn't work correctly, you will need it for a good Leopard experience! I have also done …” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-14 65,728 dossier reads |
| ATI Video Kexts “creative_: which application did you use to gain the given device id?” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-12 65,728 dossier reads |
| ATI Video Kexts “@creative: boot in verbose mode (-v), and then make a picture of your desktop, we have to see the error output!” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-11 65,728 dossier reads |
| ATI Video Kexts “naquaada, have you tried this tutorial? [Guide] ATI x1x00 Video Cards on Leopard; QE/CI Enabled, Keywords: x1600 x1800 x1650” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-07 65,728 dossier reads |
| Montain Lion OS X 10.8 “My 55" big screen is a bit much to lug around. What's the point of mobility on a desktop? I'm talking about the direction of progress of computers as a whole - in the view of my little mind. Large desktops are here to stay of course. Apple …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-11 62,076 dossier reads |