A little something that may be of use to the 68kMLA community. Since I heard that LeopardAssist was still being actively used over on the MacRumors forums, I decided to revisit the source code and see if there was anything that could be done with it. At some point it seems I'd deleted and lost the source code, and SourceForge only had the source up to version 1.2.
So I decided to completely rewrite LeopardAssist from scratch. In doing so, I resolved a lot of issues that I couldn't quite nail down back in 2009. LeopardAssist III was released as a Release Candidate on December 17th, 2013, and includes the following changes:
Since it's a complete rewrite, it uses completely different methods of detecting the hardware, authenticating and writing to the NVRAM. As such I've scrapped the now outdated list of "known compatible" machines and started over, hence why it's a Release Candidate. It may require some changes to improve support before I can move it on to Final status (and feedback is welcome), but with the machines I've personally tested it on, it seems to be significantly better than the old version 2.3.3 that it replaces.
http://leopardassist.sourceforge.net (SourceForge, 3.0MB ZIP)
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26562/leopardassist (MacUpdate mirror)
Of course, versions 1.1, 1.2 and 2.3.3 have also been archived and are now available from the LeopardAssist Project Page on SourceForge if anyone wants them.
Cheers,
~ Mic.
So I decided to completely rewrite LeopardAssist from scratch. In doing so, I resolved a lot of issues that I couldn't quite nail down back in 2009. LeopardAssist III was released as a Release Candidate on December 17th, 2013, and includes the following changes:
- Complete Rewrite with numerous under-the-hood improvements and optimisations.
- Redesigned interface and icon.
- Users can now choose to start in Single User Mode and Safe Boot after restart.
- Added automatic detection of Single and Dual processor systems.
- Added the ability for users to specify a custom processor clock frequency.
- Added detection for unsupported architectures and insufficient memory.
- Improved security when handling passwords at Authentication stage.
Since it's a complete rewrite, it uses completely different methods of detecting the hardware, authenticating and writing to the NVRAM. As such I've scrapped the now outdated list of "known compatible" machines and started over, hence why it's a Release Candidate. It may require some changes to improve support before I can move it on to Final status (and feedback is welcome), but with the machines I've personally tested it on, it seems to be significantly better than the old version 2.3.3 that it replaces.
http://leopardassist.sourceforge.net (SourceForge, 3.0MB ZIP)
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26562/leopardassist (MacUpdate mirror)
Of course, versions 1.1, 1.2 and 2.3.3 have also been archived and are now available from the LeopardAssist Project Page on SourceForge if anyone wants them.
Cheers,
~ Mic.