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Ah, the Mac Pro. Apple released a firmware update that added a BIOS emulation module, thus tricking Windows into thinking it was booting off a PC with BIOS. There's a very brief paragraph here: http://www.winxponmac.com/Apple_Bootcamp/Apple_Boo tcamp.html that explains this, sort of With this in mind, Boot Camp would not have been needed in your case. Out of curiosity, what boot loader do you use?

Okay. here's the first half of your request. That download page has links to five mirrors. "Me too"s and more extensive details to follow as soon as the servers (wiki and forums) recover from the onslaught of traffic.

Download away.. http://www.winxponmac.com/download/

It'd be nice to boot into Windows for my day job and OSX for home usage.

That was the original starting point for the prize:

I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it. I am still confident it can be done. I am giving $100 of my own money [snip] as a prize for the person / group that can make dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP happen on an Intel Mac.

But the real question is how did this win the prize. Based on the video, the computer, upon booting, went directly into XP, while the requirements for the prize clearly stated:

Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP

The prize site ( http://winxponmac.com/ ) is 403'ing. Maybe the prizegivers are worried? :)

Well, if you want to put your money where your mouth is, there is a bounty growing for just that:
    http://winxponmac.com/
Of course, nobody really knows if it is possible.

It's x86 instruction-set on an x86 processor. It's possible, it just may be damn difficult. In hacker-speak, it's just a matter of time.

Well, if you want to put your money where your mouth is, there is a bounty growing for just that:

  http://winxponmac.com/

Of course, nobody really knows if it is possible.

-Cinnamon

In the last 2 weeks, this guy Colin has raised over $6000 USD as a bounty for getting win xp onto "the scottish laptop"
That amount of cash, and growing, will focus the minds of many geeks out there... and one would think once its cracked for a wee little laptop, the ayeMac would soon follow...

In the last 2 weeks, this guy Colin has raised over $6000 USD as a bounty for getting win xp onto "the scottish laptop"
That amount of cash, and growing, will focus the minds of many geeks out there... and one would think once its cracked for a wee little laptop, the ayeMac would soon follow...

I think, given the contest Windows will be first
http://winxponmac.com/The%20Contest.html

Well, one possible answer is that Apple was smart enough to realize that the hacking community would solve this for them. They could either hire a handful of really smart, and therefore expensive, software developers for six months to develop and test everything, and then have a userbase that demands that they support that codebase indefinitely, or they just migrate the hardware first and let grassroots projects like www.winxponmac.com solve that problem for them. My take is that Apple's just being smart about all of this. Why work more than you have to? Besides, when it comes to negotiations with Microsoft, they can just point at the community of Mac hackers and say "We didn't put ourselves in this situation of competing with you, they did it to us! Damn hackers."

I should note that a colleague is also tracking these issues on his site, the same one noted in the submission. Sooner or later, and with a bounty now offered for anyone who gets Windows XP booting on a Mac, I've no doubt something interesting will be accomplished.