iATKOS | United Kingdom

I have tried Hackintoshing before (I own 2 real Macs that work and 1 that doesn't but most of my Hackintoshing adventures were before I switched to Mac) but I always tried newer versions of macOS like High Sierra or Mojave or Catalina or Big Sur but I never thought of retro Hackintoshing. Recently I decided that I wanted to try out older versions of OS X (like Leopard/Snow Leopard, Lion/Mountain Lion, or Mavericks, ideally Lion because Apple made Lion free or Snow Leopard because I have an official Snow Leopard install DVD) but the problem is, neither of my working Macs are compatible with macOS versions that old (one's a 2020 M1 MacBook Air (my daily driver) and one's a 2015 21.5" iMac) and my non-working Mac would be a perfect candidate (2007 13" MacBook) except that it doesn't work and macOS is famously hard to install in a VM so that's basically off the table so basically my only option is Hackintoshing. Most of my failed Hackintosh attempts were on my Late-2015 Dell AMD (Non-Ryzen) 15" Laptop but I could possibly have access to some retro PCs. I would ideally like a precompiled installer like iDeneb because I couldn't figure out manual Hackintoshing but with some kind of tutorial, I might be able to figure out manual Hackintoshing. Like I said, I have access to official installers of Snow Leopard and Lion. My initial plan was to use iDeneb but I can't find an iDeneb download that's not a Torrent (I'm against Torrenting for a number of reasons, including being anti-piracy and not wanting to get a virus).