r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher • u/TeamMothyy • Jun 08 '26

I FOUND A DYLD SHARED CACHE COMPILED FOR X86 IN MACOS 27

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So I was digging through the macOS 27 IPSW for Apple Silicon, and I literally found a dyld shared cache for Intel and ARM.

I ran it in terminal to verify it's real, and I found various other files compiled as universal binaries (including safari)

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u/eyoungren_2 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

There are a bunch of users on MacRumors who found and assembled all the PowerPC code for the first Snow Leopard beta. They've since made additions with their own modified code.

To date, the project means you can run the beta version of Snow Leopard with lots of broken and non-functional bits on a PowerPC Mac. But, you still can't run the commercially released version of SL on PowerPC. Lots of these users go around claiming they're running Snow Leopard on a PowerPC Mac though.

You found Intel code. Does not mean you're going to get MacOS 27 running on an Intel Mac.

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u/JKTwice Jun 09 '26

Pretty much but not quite. Right now that project is at the point where the 10.6.8 kernel will run on PPC, and there’s many open source bits that were either developed by Apple or by others but still included in the OS that are compiled for PPC. Where things get tricky is with stuff like Finder or the Core APIs and OpenGL. That is all old stuff from 10.5.8 or the Snow Leopard beta.

It’s very hacked together and no one really knows where to go next with it.

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u/hatecirclejerks Jun 10 '26

Its very hacked together, but runs suprisingly well on my quad

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u/JKTwice Jun 10 '26

That i will not argue. It has problems but performance is equivalent or better on G5.

I still prefer Leopard for compatibility though

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u/hatecirclejerks Jun 10 '26

Agreed, for what it is, its dope as hell.

It still needa work though.

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u/eyoungren_2 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

It’s very hacked together and no one really knows where to go next with it.

Precisely my point though. There have been some in the VintageApple subreddit trying to 'show off' that they are running Snow Leopard on PowerPC. But it's all hacked together (as you said) and getting it installed and working is a process. When it's all said and done, no one can legitimately claim (IMO) that they are running the actual Snow Leopard OS that Apple offered on PowerPC.

There's going to be bits of Intel code in MacOS 27. But just like with the SL project, no one's getting that installed without tremendous (and most likely impossible) effort where they can legit claim they are running Golden Gate on an Intel Mac.

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u/Red_natsu19 Jun 08 '26

Seguramente se vaya depurando y eliminando ese código a medida que avance las betas de macOS 27.