A SIMBL Plugin for iChat to allow video conferencing for iMac and iBook G3 that are under 600MHz.

This code is made available as an illustration of a simple way to customize or override certain behaviour’s in third party applications. For more information, read the two part blog posts about how this code came about:

• Circumventing iChat’s G3 Restrictions (Part 1)
• Circumventing iChat’s G3 Restrictions (Part 2)

Requirements

1. Mac OS X 10.4 ONLY
2. SIMBL 0.8

Installation

1. Extract and copy iChatUnleash.bundle into /User/[yourusername]/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
2. Restart iChat

To Uninstall, just remove /User/[yourusername]/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/iChatUnleash.bundle and restart iChat.

Download

iChatUnleash-1.1.zip

Source Code

If you would like to see the source code, you can get it from iChatUnleash-src-1.0.zip

Note: 1.1’s source code is the same with just an updated version number check in the Info.plist.

License

The code is BSD licensed. Included mach_override is licensed under creative commons share-alike. I offer no warranty or responsibility this piece of software.