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I bought an HP ProBook 4430s from e-bay just to build a Hackintosh laptop. This laptop is known as one of the best Hackintosh-able laptops with very little modification to the hardware, according to the list here: http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/09/best-hackintosh-laptops-2012-mountain-lion.html I followed this page, which is the best site for any Hackintosh info: http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook/77057-guide-installing-mountain-lion-hp-probook.html Getting the Mountain Lion Installation app was easy (from torrent). However, the OS is cheap so if you want to try, please buy it from App Store. Building a boot USB stick was not so easy. I have a White Macbook with Mac OS X Leopard. I tried to run Unibeast on it but the app fails every time it tried to write to the USB drive. Tried 3 times and always the same result. I almost gave up on it and I thought all I have is a useless 14 inch laptop. Then it occurred to me how about using the Mountain Lion VM I created on Shuttle DS61. ...

Ever since I found a way to install Atari MultiTOS (MTOS) on Steem, I have been experimenting it with SpeedoGDOS and Atari Works. They work pretty well on Steem. It's fast enough at 128MHz. It is very slow on the real Atari ST (8MHz). MTOS works just just like Macintosh MultiFinder but with pre-emptive multitasking. Atari engineers back then put a lot of efforts to make it work really well. It's too bad Atari management abandoned it. Of course many music apps do not work under MTOS and without music apps there is no actual use of Atari's. Steinberg and C-Lab did not want to embrace MTOS to make their apps run under MTOS. I want to write some apps on Atari, but GEM is very limited in terms of provided APIs so developers had to reinvent a lot of things for their apps. To make a very responsive apps I need to write assembly apps.

I have been using my Atari ST since 1987. After exhaustive search for old Atari applications, I created some Atari Steem images so it is not necessary to install each apps. MultiTOS + SpeedoGDOS + Atari Works https://mega.co.nz/#!odBRWAbI!NrdQ7HhiPjdI1w4pi-5PExzQucYc8YAWbsvYAPD0loY Geneva/Neodesk 4 https://mega.co.nz/#!YAQDAR4D!HQ8GxRlzOttiUNFAoKf9ZCFvFtUujTBqEhqR1fGBlno Warp 9 https://mega.co.nz/#!FRpyGIzB!AhGkjGZBED_QXgsANTwZKkvXfZg7vsXA-NRHX2WnhvA NVDI 2.51 https://mega.co.nz/#!AZRAERrI!bWxjaQKruYASskQz6SQOUUlwkVdCf9JwZjicPtY8c8s Hatari 1.5.0 + XaAES https://mega.co.nz/#!lAQjjAqS!Do1q5AWR3GDnWEOw2rvK-AshVtcjUvXH1yOAfNnvGY8 Hatari 1.6.2 + XaAES https://mega.co.nz/#!pc5yWDwa!Ht32f1LjSOK0CuCdgvuHPRM4ga0sXxp-ogVpWt2ooA8 minipack https://mega.co.nz/#!kJYwlRzL!IMh_1Rl3_yeJj7EMunvMTm6mc1QDV7TZlITH3oUXoEw You will need the latest web browser version to download these files.

There seems to be no web site that describes in detail how to use disk images in Steem. I will describe how so you can even install Mint using Steem. Save disk images in Steem directory. Download pasti.dll from http://pasti.fxatari.com/ Save the dll in the same directory as Steem. After starting Steem, you get this dialog. Just click OK. Open Disk Manager and click on Disk Manager Options. Check Use Pasti. Click on Pasti Configuration.  Click on Hard Disk and click on Browse to select hard disk image and press OK. Click on Hard Drives and change H: and When drive A is empty boot from H: and click OK. Now start the Steem and it boots from the disk image. The C: is recognized as H: Update 7/17: This only works on Steem 3.2.