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Architecture: x86 (Intel)
Mac OS X for Intel microprocessor
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Mac OS X for PowerPC microprocessor
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OS X Internet Recovery
To start your computer from Internet Recovery, restart your Mac and hold down the Command and Option and R keys at startup. Internet Recovery is not perfect: it might 'quit unexpectedly', or you might not allow your Mac to download installer disc image for hours or days. It is just as important for the community to archive network-distributed software, as it is important to archive software distributed on physical media.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
10.6.3 build 10D575
Retail double-layer DVD-ROM.
Mfr. Part Number: MC573Z/A
UPC or EAN No.: 885909398751
oops: I recorded checksum of only Mac OS installer partition/slice, not whole disc.
cksum, MD5, SHA-1
1206739518 7273689088 10D575.slice
65bc030e517acf59891d576c2bd2f9d6 10D575.slice
1b9e17d0a49531fa715f74086b6cf8824859661b 10D575.slice
Mac OS X Lion
10.7.5 build 11G63
UDIF read-only compressed (zlib) UDZO.
UPC or EAN No.: D6106Z/A
cksum
3541820211 4719551306 InstallESD.dmg
247537360 5148332032 InstallESD.cdr
MD5
926186a27ff1a9770b9a291efbb7ff46 InstallESD.dmg
4ef876add3dcd7ece4ba4286cba38167 InstallESD.cdr
SHA-1
a044fc01fa75b1f255dbdd6ea4fefa30cef147b0 InstallESD.dmg
70aba476d4056166bd62e3ba731e9e249cbc2d6b InstallESD.cdr
SHA-512
a54fd09862d8d8e6834cfe05ca73c3eaace9515fe65150d97d27288a6658ad9ac9af6de920a85d16f7288de36f122e0cb718a2b3e11fab09eb0099bf3b465cc2 InstallESD.dmg
b08368e16740697f94fcb8dbac574ae4463126862d68611c7f0f980887be2d02add2961cba8570cf093e87fad445b47c6acc21ecd9ee1f5dde4768643fab31b7 InstallESD.cdr
OS X Mountain Lion
10.8.5 build 12F45
UDIF read-only compressed (zlib) UDZO.
UPC or EAN No.: 885909922338
cksum
3341879902 4434015077 InstallESD.dmg
4056085336 4856893440 InstallESD.cdr
MD5
69fa8dbbc2aa6668534cc863ac9b9f28 InstallESD.dmg
68e8bebe77ead5df41b71d8d580ca0a6 InstallESD.cdr
SHA-1
b8fa63882f06b52eb73f6ecc6661858de32e70e9 InstallESD.dmg
efd89e552d30514bb37f2f74a34704641e66102b InstallESD.cdr
Architecture: x86 (Intel)
Comments
@butterburger
Try posting a 20+ year old EA game on this site, and see how "reasonable" some software publishers can be!
Apple have NEVER released any of their software as abandonware. I would not pick a fight with Apple (or their lawyers) and many current computers in use are stuck at maximum Mac OS X 10.6.8 (particularly MacBook's which cannot update due to video hardware). I personally used Lion as my only OS until quite recently (Mid-2010 iMac).
Almost all current software will run on 10.6.8, so my piracy concerns are well-founded when we talk about "preserving" an (Apple) operating system still in regular use around the globe.
http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1333316516_mgpic_fina...
http://lowendmac.com/2013/mavericks-already-dominates-among-os-x-users/
As you can see, a steady 1 in 5 users (at that point) were still using Snow Leopard, probably out of necessity. NO APPLE OS WILL EVER BE ABANDONWARE. It might be FREEWARE, but that is as far as Apple, and its litigious mentality will go. Even then, only System 6.0.8 and 7.5.5 were ever released as freeware (from memory).
The simple fact that we would even CALL Snow Leopard or Lion ABANDONWARE, shows how little you know about Apple, and ABANDONWARE.
Many here will agree its wise to preserve everything from Apple locally as long as its available.
We had to learn the hard way that servers may go off-line in an instant.
Thinking of support, we have to face the fact that the ntp security update was not offered by Apple for 10.7 or lower.
(Don´t ask me why they decided not to submit this simple patch and leave this large barn-door open for attacking.)
Anyway we should recall the ten-year rule before even considering uploading files to the garden.
Posting links to external servers, may they be legal or not is useless in my opinion, as this won´t preserve anything and thats what the garden is about, don´t you think so?
Just my two € cents.
discussing is courting disaster ?!
Here is some discussing on Apple Support Communities. Do you call this 'courting disaster'?
I do not understand you. I live right now. I do not see 'pirating' going on. Not in discussion, nor anywhere else on Macintosh Garden. Do you see 'pirating' now? Or in future? I very much doubt some 'pirating' will 'get this site shut down'. I guess the admins could shut it down, but I do not know why they would want to do that.
I want to understand you, but I find your posts non-reasonable.
As far as I know, MacOS9 still gets online system (software) updates... so we are in very muddy waters indeed if you go by that rationale.
iTunes comes preinstalled as part of the OS, and not a part of iLife (as it once was). The fact that they dropped Safari support is probably due to XCode and Apple trying to force users to update (why they would upgrade due to a Safari update is beyond me).
I don't give a sh*t about anything Apple offers to Windows users, as this is not a Windows site. I would very much care if this site got shut down over pirating "recent" versions of Mac OS X for Intel computers...
10.4.7 Server and 10.5 "might" be OK, but discussing anything more recent than that is courting disaster.
We have only recently agreed posting software here that runs native in Mac OS X 10.1/10.2/10.3 on the Garden.
iTunes is a software product separate of Mac OS X. iTunes is pre-installed and bundled with Mac OS X, just as games, AppleWorks, and FAXstf might have been bundled in past. A user might accept Mac OS X Apple Software License Agreement, and reject iTunes SLA.
Software Update distributes software titles (mostly Apple software) and updates to software titles (mostly Apple's). Mac OS X and iTunes are two of Apple's software titles. If a Mac user removes or uninstalls iTunes, then Software Update will not offer 'minor' or sub-version updates for iTunes. Then, Software Update will offer a new release of a previously removed software. A newer major version of, iTunes in this case, can be either: an upgrade from older version, or a newly-installed title.
Why Apple presents new iTunes, but not new Safari, to users of Mac OS X Lion? I can tell you, but I am slanted, so consider this false: iTunes rakes in money; Safari does not.
This has nothing to do with anything: Safari, iTunes, QuickTime, and more, were presented to Windows users in Apple Software Update.
This has nothing to do with anything: Microsoft Windows Update and Apple Software Update both distribute drivers. If a new HP Printer Driver is added to Microsoft Update Catalog or Apple Software Update catalog, for an end-of-life operating system, then that does not mean 'developer of old OS still supports old OS'.
Clear as crystal?
@macjames
thanks for the clarification. Probably a decent reason to keep Snow Leopard available.
I think everyone has their own opinion on what's abandonware. In the case of OS X, in my eyes, if the OS can get updates via "Software Update", can't be called abandonware. Fresh installations from Tiger and up get their updates just fine.
And a note about Lion: It is still getting the current iTunes version. A couple of days before christmas, those with Final Cut installed got the proapps codecs update 2.0. Apple could just deny such update to Lion users, but didn't. Even if it is not getting new security updates can't see it as completely dropped.
@themacmeister:
Just to clarify what we call "Classic Mode" is the ability to run OS 9 under OSX, Classic was dropped with Leopard. What was dropped with Lion is the ability to run PPC applications on intel machines. Snow Leopard with the aid of Rosetta is the last OS that can run PPC applications.
My introduction to Hackintosh was using 10.4 -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86#Mac_OS_X_v10.4_.22Tiger.22
I can foresee issues for this website if we link to any OS above 10.5, although there is good reason to make 10.6 available for Classic Mode (I thought it was Classic that was dropped in 10.7 and Rosetta dropped in 10.6?). My memory is pretty hazy tho.
Retail versions for Tiger were all PPC only except for one Server edition, 10.4.7, which was Universal Binary. All Intel releases were bundled with the computer they were sold with and were machine specific. All Leopard releases, whether retail or machine specific, were Universal Binary.
Lion is still sold by Apple so can hardly be regarded as Abandonware, especially as it last received an update as recently as September this year.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger had different Install DVDs for PPC and Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Server came with Universal Install DVD for Intel/PPC. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard came as a Universal Install DVD.
Apple do not support any OS older that is more than 3 generations behind the current OS (support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was dropped this year with release of Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite). So it became abandonware in my eyes. Moreover, they give the current Mac OS X away for free (since Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks).
So it is fair to have these abandoned OS somewhere for everybody who wants his old Macintosh still around and wants to use it for something useful.
The creator of this entry wanted to list the information of the Intel Mac OS X for future reference. I think links would be OK up to Mac OS X 10.6 (last Mac OS X with Rosetta for running PPC applications).
There are a LOT of macintosh computers that cannot run anything higher than Lion (32bit EFI). To say Snow Leopard and Lion are already abandoned is ridiculous in the extreme. I know two people in my town who are happily using 10.6.8 on their MacBook Pro's. They cannot actually go higher due to no graphic card support in 10.8/10.9/10.10.
As far as I know, Apple have not made ANY operating system abandonware, and are staunchly against the idea. I know they are fervently trying to get people to update to Macericks/Yosemite due to a high percentage being reticent to do so. This does not diminish the fact that Snow Leopard and Lion are still very much sold and supported by Apple.
If any of these OS you mentioned ran on PPC, that would be a different matter.
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Tiger and Leopard retail CDs/DVD include the Intel binaries in the install? If that is the case, then these are already covered in another thread. They are not abandonware either.
I would have started with Tiger and Leopard, if I had any discs to checksum. What do you see as the problem? Other software pages in here, point to vendor/developer/publisher sites to purchase. Mountain Lion will be abandonware next year. Snow Leopard and Lion already are abandoned: new copies are sold only as base from which to upgrade to current latest OS; use of Lion and earlier is not any more supported than Leopard and earlier (which already are found in Macintosh Garden). This page will help us to detect 'data rot'. Our work is software preservation.
This page has nothing whatsoever to do with piracy.
This gives me a bad feeling. Software this modern on what is essentially an abandonware site, just doesn't sit right with me. You know that Apple is going to pull those links down at their leisure, when not enough people have upgraded to 10.11, which then requires more mirrors (Amazon/eBay), and before you know it, people are posting links to Torrents or DropBox.
This is just too close to piracy for comfort. The simple fact that you supplied links to their Purchase page on Apple, confirms that these are still supported and sold by Apple.
This thread deserves to be on an OS X related website, just not sure if this is the correct site.