[MacDV] Re: Formac Devideon

[Erica Sadun]

I've done it. It works. I have screen shots.
What you're doing is creating two files in your home folder.
Each (otherwise empty) file has a named (empty) resource.
The names of the files are recoverable from the strings
from the binary executable in iDVD.app/Contents/MacOS

-- Erica



At 5:40 AM -0500 3/15/04, YangZone at aol.com wrote:
>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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