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Help needed to polish USB Apple TV hack

by Zach Flauaus on Jul 30, 2007 at 12:51 AM

appletv-hacksOnly two days after the highly anticipated USB patch for the Apple TV was released, AppleTV Hacks is calling on volunteers to help clean the code up. Now that the code is out in the open, they are calling on people to help add more features and make it easier to use.

As they said, when they released the patch Friday night, it was pretty restrictive. It required you have have an Intel Mac or Intel-*nix box, an Apple TV running software version 1.0 with ssh enabled among other things. Their highest priority, according to them on their site, is to make the patch work with Apple TV software version 1.1, which added YouTube support, among others. They would also like to expand the hacking to other platforms, namely PPC OS X computers and Windows as well so everybody will have a chance to join in on the fun. Their last request: a convenient, easy-to-use GUI program to make it much easier for less-savvy hackers.

If you’d like to help them, you can download their source here and if you have some coding skills, can decipher and modify the code to help them achieve their goals.

Via [AppleTV Hacks]

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