First off – you do realise that this post is for Aperture 1.5, and not 1.5.2 don’t you ? The values for 1.5.2 are in this post. Having said that, if you have an Aperture.app file that is patched don’t beat yourself up doing it a second time: just drag and drop the file from one Mac to the other: the licence key is 100% separate from the application itself, so when you run it on the machine you’ve just copied it to manually it’ll ask for your key then.

Note that there are some support packages that are probably best installed, but you can simply use the ‘Show Package Contents’ on the original installer and then go inside to find the individual installers. Only the Aperture Application installer bothers to check compatibility; all of the support packages just go in.

HTH,

I’ve installed Aperture and upgraded to 1.5.2.

Using OxED, I can’t find the Hex Offsets listed (40 9E 00 88). They don’t appear to be in there at all. I’ve done this fine on my TiBook, and it’s driving me nuts as to why I can’t seem to find the appropriate offsets to do it on my Dual 1.25 MDD G4

Can anyone give me a play by play to get this done? Please?

Many thanks!

And make sure you are working on a backup of that file, so you can go back and try again if it fails.

If I could ever see that it runs, I would happily buy a copy, but not until then.

I have in iBook G4 1GHz 1152MB connected to a 20″ wide flat panel and I’m dying to try out Aperture.

I’d buy it next payday if I could run this demo and make sure it works for my workflow.

Please help!

Do note that the values here are for Aperture 1.5 – if you have 1.5.1 then you need to alter different locations, as described in my more recent post.

HTH

HTH

I’ve already sent some instructions to another user via email, so here’s an almost cut-n-paste job from that. Apologies if this starts off too slow for your experience, but I feel it’s helpful to start at the very beginning for people who’ve just come over from the Windows world. If this doesn’t sort things for you, please get in touch directly and I’ll try to help out.

The biggest difference from Windows in this case is that nearly all Mac applications are in fact directories, and the name actually ends in .app The reason for this is that there is very little need to have .DLL files in the main system directory, so the equivalent of the .EXE and all associated helper files an application requires are all kept in one place, and can be moved around more easily.

Right, open up a Finder window, go to the Applications directory, and find the Aperture icon. Right click (or, if you only have a one button mouse, hold down CTRL and click) and choose the ‘Show Package Contents’ option. This opens the directory called Aperture.app and you’ll see another directory call Contents. Open that directory, and then open the directory called MacOS and you should see a file called Aperture (a black/grey gradient icon with small green writing in the top left).

That’s the file you need to modify: this is the actual .EXE and the one that the hex offsets refer to. You can drag this file to the 0xED application icon, or you can navigate directly to this file from within the File > Open menu item in 0xED (Applications > Aperture.app > Contents > MacOS > Aperture).

Open up the Preferences menu in 0xED, and in the General tab change the Writing Mode to Overwrite: this just makes it easier for this set of changes.

Once this file is open, type the offset into the box with Go To Offset under it: b548 in the first case. This will move the cursor to that byte in the file, so then it’s simply a case of typing in the new values: 48000088 you don’t need to press space or move the cursor whilst typing in the four values.

Then type the next offset into the box in the top bar, and repeat. Save the file once done (you might want to make a backup of the original before you start, just in case things go wrong).

This makes the application run on my 1GHz 12″ Powerbook: I did also edit the Info.plist file to allow it to run with less that 1GB of RAM too, but the .plist edit doesn’t remove any of the video or CPU checks.

HTH

and does this counter the graphics card problem on a powerbook?

thx