Tools

Historical text from HellasProject (2009–2014). It is not current advice or a present-day service.

If you download and run the files below, you carry the only responsibility if something breaks.

oclinfo – 63kb — shows OpenCL capabilities of supported devices (Snow Leopard).

Kext Utility – 69kb — install kexts and refresh the mkext cache.

Kext Utility x64 – 58kb — same idea, Snow Leopard build (support page linked on the original).

Efi Studio – 4.9mb — edit Boot.plist and add strings so graphics, network, and other devices work.

Lizard – 709kb — GUI for Chameleon bootloader settings: read/write com.apple.Boot.plist and smbios.plist.

Rebel-EFI – DUBL – 1.5mb — an alternative bootloader.

DSDT Patch (GUI) – 1.5mb — unpack, run the patcher, choose Darwin/Mac OS X, pick the OS X disk, run the DSDT patch.

DSDT Patcher / iasl – 228kb — DSDT patcher plus the iasl command (for example to decode dsdt.aml).

DSDT simple editor V1.3.6 (DSDTSE) – 3.6mb — easier DSDT editor for catching errors.

DSDT decompile/compile (iaslME.v1.0) (GUI) – 694kb — decompile DSDT.aml to DSDT.dsl, edit in TextEdit, compile back.

pfix v2.2 – 2kb — enables pfix from the installer environment to repair a broken OS X install.

Webcam USB – 3.5mb — a universal USB webcam driver; claimed to work with most cameras, including a PS3 Cam if OS X would not talk to it.

IORegistryExplorer (GUI) – 242kb — browse IORegistry information with a GUI.

OSx86 Tools – 1.69mb — inject EFI strings for graphics, rebuild kext cache, and similar chores.

EvOToolsX for Snow Leopard – 4.04mb — CPU, SMBIOS, SMC keys, LSPCI, and “deep” info on Snow Leopard.