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Just got an Apple TV. What are the must-have hacks?
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UPS just delivered my Apple TV. It has arrived a few days ahead of my greatly-anticipated Samsung 40" LCD TV, 1080p.
I'm wondering what the must-have hacks are for this thing.
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Never got around to hacking mine, mainly because all my Macs are PPC and the hacks I have seen require Intel.
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It's a good thing my Mac is Intel then.
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I thought the latest hacks don't involve computers anymore ?
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So this Patchstick or the files that go on it - are they free to download?
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AFAIK, yes.
I don't have an AppleTV, so I never checked it out in detail.
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I've been trying for a week to get it going. It's nontrivial.
Essentially if you have an Intel Mac and a copy of OS X Tiger (not Leopard) installed, it's supposedly easy. However, if you are running Leopard and can't go back to Tiger, you'll have problems.
I've gotten Patchstick images off of Bit Torrent, off of the ATV4Windows site, and several other places. None of them work. The one I got off of a Torrent booted but hung during the boot process with an error about an Ethernet driver.
I suspect that there are complete patchstick images out there that work perfectly, but I haven't found one yet.
To the OP, the "essential" hacks are the ssh hack, the video hack (Perrian or something), and the Safari/WebKit hack, but there are dozens of other neat ones you may be interested in if you can get it working.
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ATV4Windows
Those guys seem to be selling a functioning patchstick. I'm wary of "buying" the membership to get it, when they are essentially selling software they do not own (boot.efi, and tiger OS X binaries), but I am curious about it.
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Mac Pro 2x 2.66 GHz Dual core, Apple TV 160GB, two Windows XP PCs
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