Welcome to pastaOS. pastaOS Hiyashi is here. Experience the power of new features such as a refreshed Kesme icon, the new Pear BASIC language, an updated browser with the ability to install apps from the web, the continuation of pastaOS Pho's redesign, a new Notepad app that uses UNIX line feeds for new lines, a new Calculator app based on the OpenMX calculator, and more. Get it here as a Proton Drive link for macOS (as it is too big for GitHub, but feel free to convert it to your platform's TurboWarp Packager platform as long as you don't distribute the modified copy of the app, but it is a Universal 2 application for Intel and Apple Silicon): https://drive.proton.me/urls/S5FSK64PD0#9JhUPscsOlid (its SHA-256 checksum is 3dee56353b6b4223a245c35514ee516510e22ea2f0b77901caa4e1ec3fac0dd7 , and you can check this by creating a .txt file of the checksum and use the UNIX command on macOS "shasum -a 256 /path/to/your/pastaOS_PKG | grep '<checksum goes here>' && echo "VERIFIED: Checksum matches the official Pear Binary." || echo "FAILED: Checksum MISMATCH. File has been modified or corrupted." (replace the path with the actual path and checksum with the actual checksum) in Terminal to verify. It has been tested as working on an official copy, and it has been tested as safe by Pear and guarantees a binary is unmodified).) Since pastaOS Hiyashi, we now distribute a .pkg file for macOS to distribute the application. If you have an old Mac lying around running at least Mac OS X Leopard for the flat PKG support (macOS Big Sur up to the latest macOS Tahoe would work better) and use a PC, try using that to extract the app by installing it and then use LocalSend or a USB stick to send it to your PC, but if you have no Mac, try Hackintoshing a spare PC you have or use an external tool to extract the contents of a macOS PKG. pastaOS Misua should have fixed the vDisk download failure bug, but feel free to tell Pear if the bug still occurs and we'll try to fix it. If you need the Sen Yai API, get it here and host it at 127.0.0.1:8000 with the /senyai.php endpoint visible at 127.0.0.1:8000/senyai.php: https://github.com/PearComputer/Sen-Yai-API To use the Tor networking, get the Sen Yai Networking script at https://github.com/PearComputer/Sen-Yai-Networking and make sure either the Tor Browser or the Tor service are started and set up at the right port before using the Tor networking (which should theoretically bypass CORS restrictions too to some extent). If Kesme says that Gemini needs an API key and doesn't allow unregistered callers, press the green flag. She should have likely had that key be used already upon entry now. If the Binder List Items button speech bubble cuts off, try dragging the window further left or right. It should be visible then. If an OpenMX app asks for a root password, the default pastaOS root password in the Frute Engine is most likely "pastaOS". The new .poi installer button in the Browser app needs you to enter your password, just like the Install App From .poi in the Pear App Store. Just enter your pastaOS password.
pastaOS Pho and newer now uses the pastaOS EULA at https://github.com/PearComputer/pastaOS-EULA/blob/main/pastaOS%20EULA.rtf (click Download Raw File and open it in an RTF editor like Apple TextEdit to view it properly). By using pastaOS, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions this EULA (pastaOS Developer is not bound by said EULA). Here is an Apple Intelligence summary of that EULA (ensure you read the EULA fully first beforehand): The End User License Agreement (EULA) for pastaOS (v1.0.0) outlines the terms for using the Regular Binary, a pre-compiled application package. Users are granted a personal, non-commercial license to use and modify the Regular Binary for personal use, but distribution of modified versions is strictly prohibited. Any modifications must be distributed as external patcher applications or scripts, and the integrity of the official distribution is verified using SHA-256 checksums. You can make your own pastaOS installers by unpackaging the tool at https://pearcomputerllc.github.io/pastaOS-Lai-Fun/pastaOS%20Installer%20Maker with the TurboWarp Unpackager and then loading the SB3 in TurboWarp Desktop. Be careful when using AutoCompose as it overrides the clipboard contents (we recommend dumping the clipboard with Command + V into a blank TextEdit document beforehand or using the macOS Tahoe Clipboard History if it shows up in Spotlight, but the document method is best). Whenever an extension security prompt shows up, you should run those extensions without sandbox and click allow (don't worry, they are perfectly safe in pastaOS and can't break out of the browser sandbox, and they themselves aren't using the Sen Yai API), but if an app in pastaOS from outside the Pear App Store (i.e. an external .poi file) requests an external resource in TurboWarp Desktop, it is up to you to determine whether than non-Pear-vetted app is making a legit request or not as it is a third-party resource. Of course, the Pear App Store is the safest way to obtain pastaOS apps, but be careful with external .poi files as if they use stuff like the Sen Yai API, they can access the system shell if it is hosted or potentially access external resources, delete sprites from pastaOS, reset all Local Storage keys, etc., so only install .poi installers you trust outside of the Pear App Store, but .poi installers are relatively easy to make alongside using pastaOS Developer and that it is quite easy to submit a request to Pear to submit an app to the Pear App Store.
