Dear Eagle, Here's a copy of the email where the patch reached the MacDV list last Wednesday: From: Filipp Lepalaan <filipp at mac.ee> Date: Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:55:42 AM US/Pacific To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> Subject: [MacDV] iDVD3 w/ external drive Reply-To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> This thing allows iDVD 3 to run without a SupperDriver... whatever that means. http://kaja.org.ee/idvd3_patch.tgz filipp Here's a picture of the boys who put it together along with their email addresses and phone numbers: http://kaja.org.ee/info.htm I don't know what country is "ee" does anyone else know? German? East European? Hope this helps Eagle. k On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Eagle wrote: > Kunga, > > No OWC patch? No problem. But if I'm going to run code on my system, > I very much care where it came from and what it does. Especially if > I'm replacing Apple's code. The aforementioned patch replaces Apple's > iDVD *executable* (that's what Foo.app/Contents/MacOS/Foo is - the > main application binary) with one of unknown origin. For all I know > it has code to "rm -rf ~" ... You better believe I care where code > comes from! > > Eagle > > On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 14:00 US/Eastern, Thubten Kunga wrote: >> Dear Eagle, >> The OWC patch broke with Jaguar. It is history and will not return >> except maybe in a new set of code. That is not the issue here. You >> CAN install iDVD 3 without a SuperDrive on any G4 Mac— even G3 Macs >> (but it won't run). After you install it, you put this patch in the >> read me file described folder to replace Apple's and iDVD 3 works >> except for the burn. Who the hell cares where it came from. It works. >> That's all that matters.