Mac OSX 10.5.2 on a Balance Digital PC

Starting off about 3 years ago I bought a new top-of-the-line (at the time) emachines PC. So that meant I cannibalized my old PC.  I put it in the closet and promptly forgot about it.

(cut seen 3 years later)

After my last final I was lounging around the student center and I found osX86's web page, and I was hooked.  the result

This is my Mac OSX 10.5.2 running on my old balance PC. 

 

After extensive use of Insanelymac's forms I was able to get it up and running.  the only complaints I have is that I haven't found the right kext's (Mac Drivers) for the graphics cards and the LAN. So the Internet is a bit slow and the monitor doesn't go beyond 1024x768, but that's ok because the monitor I have hooked up doesn't ether.  In the end when I can get the money I am going to get a real Mac, but this will do for now. 

 

Update

I bought a cheep $20 nVidia GeForce FX 5200 and got the monitor working at all supported resolutions.  Now i just have to figure out how to get quartz Extreme working.

Smart Board on the Cheep

I was popping through ITEA's IdeaGarden and i ran across a post about how to use a wii-mote as a cheep alternative to a smartboard.  I was so impress that I thought to pass it on to you all.  For my self, heading in to the education field, it is a very interesting idea.  it is my intention to try it out when school starts back up in a few days.  I'll keep you posted.

PS

Here is his web site.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

it has other cool wii mote projects to check out as well.

Next time: My Hackintosh