#OpenCore Legacy

[river-taxbird]

Have you got an old Mac that is no longer supported by Apple? It's time to give it a new life.

How to install the latest MacOS on Mac hardware that is no longer officially supported using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I recently discovered this and it has been a game changer. Recently my partner needed a Mac for her music course, so we bought a 2012 Macbook Pro as it was cheap and on paper still had decent hardware for working with music. We were then disappointed to find out that it is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore can't run the latest version of Logic, which she needed to inter-op with the school comptuers. Just as we thought we had bought a less than useful computer, I found this video about OpenCore Legacy Patcher from Youtuber Action Retro.

It's a community made piece of software that allows you to install the latest version of MacOS on any Intel Mac, from the late 2000s onwards. All you need to do is download the application on a mac, it will then allow you to make a bootable USB drive for any version of MacOS you want, and you just need to choose the specific mac you are targeting from a list, and it "blesses" the bootable drive, allowing you to install it on your unsupported mac using the normal install process.

I tried it and it it worked perfectly on the 2012 Macbook Pro, and the latest version of MacOS Sonoma is running perfectly well on the 12 year old hardware. It also allowed us to install the latest version of Logic, so it's working great.

Props to the team for making this and allowing hardware that would otherwise be e-waste to continue to be usable with the modern internet and software. If you end up using it, please consider donating to the team as apparently they had to jump through some serious technical hoops to get this working. Here is the link again if you need it: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

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Installed Big Sur on a 10 year old unsupported MacBook Pro. (Mountain Lion to Big Sur)

[dr-iphone]

【心得分享】利用 OpenCore Legacy Patcher，讓舊款 MAC 電腦也能更新到最新版 macOS

蘋果每年都會推出新一代 macOS 作業系統更新，也幾乎每年都淘汰部分舊機型無法升級到最新的 macOS，如果使用者想要體驗新功能，就必須購買新機才行。 問題是 Mac 電腦很耐用，如果只是為了想要體驗新系統就重新買一台電腦其實滿浪費的。這次要來分享利用開源程式 OpenCore 讓舊款 Mac 電腦更新到最新版 macOS，同時還會透���一些小撇步讓大家升級成功喔！ Continue reading 【心得分享】利用 OpenCore Legacy Patcher，讓舊款 MAC 電腦也能更新到最新版 macOS

[melabitme]

Ridare una nuova vita al vecchio Mac con OpenCore Legacy Patcher (terza parte)

Dopo due lunghissimi articoli su OpenCore Legacy Patcher (prima parte e seconda parte), ha senso destinarne un terzo ad una linkografia1 ragionata di pagine web e di video dedicati a questo software? Secondo me sì (altrimenti non stareste leggendo l’articolo proprio in questo momento), perché OpenCore Legacy Patcher (come sempre, da ora in poi userò l’acronimo OCLP) è un software complesso e non…

[richtong1]

Mac: New life for MacBooks 2010-2017 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Well, I’ve had some pretty good luck with OCLP to update old Macs to the latest MacOS Ventura, and Sonoma. Right now I’ve got running and it’s a pretty good list. The main thing to do is to make sure you are using the latest Open Core Legacy Patcher. So the idea is you get the latest operating system that is supported, then you do a brew install opencore-patcher and then you download the more…

[maaarine]

Ah j'avais pas vu, déso pour la redite !

Pour le pb du T2, des gens bossent dessus et c'est dans leur roadmap de cet automne a priori, y'a déjà des issues qui sont ouvertes, après faut pas trop rely sur une livraison imminente du bugfix, ça reste du volontariat et la bande de geeks crypto-communistes VS le Goliath de la tech qui fait tout pour que ça marche pas… c'pas gagné.

Y'a tjrs le changelog ici au cas où https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases

Espérons que ta machine ne te clamse pas dans les mains d'ici qu'ils aient fixé 🤞

avec les Mac précédents que j'ai eus, après 5 ans c'était le hardware qui partait en vrille donc il y avait un truc concret à faire réparer

mais là cette histoire de software c'est tellement transparent comme arnaque, ça me saoule

je n'ai pas de loyauté aveugle pour Apple (le reste de ma tech est Samsung) mais je déteste tellement utiliser Windows que je n'arrive pas à rompre

[maiosx]

my hackintosh journey

formatting usb's to a gpt partition without gibmacOS's python script (only on windows with the bat cmd launcher script) was a pain for about a day or two and I wasn't aware it existed until I found it and it's still broken write to usb command is unavailable because the download server is off so writing the OS dmg images required transmac and that's if you can even find a proper installer. I also realized I was copying the ventura mac installer incorrectly to the drive then figured I should just boot efi's in a seperate usb drive to solve partitioning or read/write issues. My config.plist file had many things inaccurate and proper tree manager and ocat auxilary tools don't come with manuals. After finding a proper coffee-lake efi without any model identifiers, I used OCAT to generate an SMBIOS of iMac 19,1 and proper tree to edit some values like securebootmodel to disabled and enablewriteunprotector to true then rebuilt it, saved and pasted some prebuilt ACPI SSDTs then rebuilt the config file again. This is all after the original high sierra install which needed a proper clover EFI so I had used the one I found from AIO Clover Boot method's img file off an abandoned blog. Once I had High Sierra running I used a script from tonymacx86 to install web drivers for the OS but it broke for some reason after many reboots of the ventura installer. So I had to then update the OS and then installed the original web driver from nvidia. After that installation, you are required to use opencore's legacy patcher to build the new OS usb or off the app store with the dd to usb terminal command but opencore's method is easier. My take is... If you want to be able to run mac OS X on a PC just buy one. KVM's on Qemu with linux using Sosumi are outdated, they don't support usb passthrough correctly if you don't have the USB Kext installed for your mobo or Qemu updated and set up with virt-manager which is some other nonsense of it's own. The whole thing is a mess all over the internet without any proper guide to complete it all in 2023. That's even after you figure you can run the legacy patcher's root patch for GPUs - says it runs on ventura but I didn't test it and without metal app support.. and you still need to know the secret boot arguments for your GPU if it's not AMD based and you'll likely get some Invalid X symbol at the second boot for not disabling system integrity protection while rooting or not copying over the EFI bc I don't even know how to safe boot to a hackintosh for turning off SIP if it doesn't boot in the first place. I will stay on Windows 10 and keep my High Sierra installation though because old software is kinda neat, less broken, and faster than whatever is out in the wild. Manjaro Linux running gnome on the other hand, or Fedora are really good for running servers without needing windows license keys and it's probably why sysadmins like linux so much tho the other software on it mostly sucks and so without maiOSX running on edge and all the web apps it's toast and the safari developer thingy on iOS doesn't work on high sierra unless you update iTunes probably which is a security update of 2gb that will break the GPU again.. it's just awful how de-constructing updates and things are on all those mac OSes are. ventura looked neat though but, too grey for me. not dark enough.

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OpenCore Legacy Patcher - Revive Your Old Mac! ⚙️🖥️🔧 https://applevideos.co.uk/mac-studio/opencore-legacy-patcher-revive-your-old-mac

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MacPro 2009 に Sonoma と Windows 11 を導入した件

お久しぶりの更新です。 この黄金週間、カレンダー通りに仕事して、休みの日も一時間ほどで実家にいける距離でしか出かけられないので（介護は大変なのだよ）、近所をうろうろするしかできないのなら、MacPro 2009 に Sonoma でも入れちゃいますか、とさっそ作業を開始。 ところで、最近は OpenCore Legacy Patcher という便利なものが有志により提供されているおかげで、サクッと、本当にサクッとインストールできてしまった。 むしろ問題は、同居している Windows 10 のほうである。 OpenCore を導入すると EFI ブートになるのだが、いままで使っていた Windows 10 は Legacy BIOS ブートなので、EFI ブート後の起動ディスク選択では起動できませんと蹴られるだけなのだ。実は、起動時に Option…

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How to install mac using windows

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[dr-iphone]

【心得分享】利用 OpenCore Legacy Patcher，讓舊款 MAC 電腦也能更新到最新版 macOS

蘋果每年都會推出新一代 macOS 作業系統更新，也幾乎每年都淘汰部分舊機型無法升級到最新的 macOS，如果使用者想要體驗新功能，就必須購買新機才行。 問題是 Mac 電腦很耐用，如果只是為了想要體驗新系統就重新買一台電腦其實滿浪費的。這次要來分享利用開源程式 OpenCore 讓舊款 Mac 電腦更新到最新版 macOS，同時還會透露一些小撇步讓大家升級成功喔！ Continue reading 【心得分享】利用 OpenCore Legacy Patcher，讓舊款 MAC 電腦也能更新到最新版 macOS

[melabitme]

Ridare una nuova vita al vecchio Mac con OpenCore Legacy Patcher (seconda parte)

Ed eccoci arrivati alla seconda parte di questo lunghissimo articolo su OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Nella prima parte ho presentato il programma, che può ridare smalto ad un vecchio Mac permettendogli di far girare versioni recenti di macOS, e ho spiegato come installare su una chiavetta USB sia OpenCore Legacy Patcher (da ora in poi OCLP) che il programma di installazione di macOS, da scegliere fra…

[richtong1]

tech: Time Machine Backups to Synology again and Gregory Alpaca Duffels

Well, since I’m now rebuilding my MacBook 2014 for the third time and the MacBook Pro 2010 for the second, it’s time once again to think about backups. I have not used Time Machine for years because the MacOS has been so stable, but with these old machines and the use of OpenCore Legacy Patcher, I’m finding that rebooting is pretty unstable. So time once again to remember how the Time Machine…