[MacDV] Re: Formac Devideon

[YangZone at aol.com]

Oh... the page that deals with this has a mention of firmware as it's main subject... but this is not firmware installation - I believe you could describe it as activating a feature that Apple is witholding so far. It's called an "easter egg".
The required (tiny) files have code that (when the files are placed on the root drive) augments iDVD and, when the Burn button is Control-clicked, causes it to display a window that offers a choice of (connected) drives to burn to.

That's as far as I've got with it so I do not have a DVD that I burned externally yet - but it does look promising? [This tip appeared on this List about a week ago].

PJ

In a message dated 3/14/2004 9:05:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk at mac.com> writes:

>Do you think it is a good idea to install a firmware flash from a 
>dubious source?  Sounds like a option for the brave but I would like to 
>see a system run with this installed for a long while before I would 
>trust it.
>
>Gerhard
>
>
>On Mar 14, 2004, at 8:52 PM, YangZone at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Have you checked out this "situation"? There MAY be a way to get iDVD 
>> to burn to an External drive. (Preliminary tests good for me.)
>>
>> http://forum.firmware-flash.com/viewtopic.php?t=23370
>> Go down the page and click the Download for:
>> HPfurz.sit.hqx
>> and follow instructions.
>
>
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