From the developer: 'OrangeWare FireWire IIDC Camera driver is designed for FireWire web cameras on all Mac OS X operating systems version 10.1 or greater. Some of the supported web cameras. MacOS X 10.3 Panther operating system (or 10.2 Jaguar with updated firewire components) Built-in firewire on the Mac or a firewire PCI card; Adequate hard drive space for recording. HDTV requires up to 9GB/hr for 19.3Mbit/sec broadcasts but the compression that most providers now use yield storage requirements somewhat less. FireWire drives causing kernel panics if connected at startup MacFixIt reader Emyr Williams reports that, in some cases, having a FireWire drive attached at startup under Mac OS X 10.3.7 can cause. Many parts of Mac OS X's I/O (Input/Output) services come from the PCI bridge, so the first thing the Mac must do is determine that it is a FireWire device instead of, say, a USB device.
Apple is offering its FireWire Software Development Kit (SDK) to developers free of charge. The kit, called the FireWire Reference Platform, is software that will allow developers to quickly create device drivers for FireWire enabled products. From the FireWire Reference Platform website:
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The FireWire Reference Platform 1.0 is based on the 'TNF' software that was acquired by Apple from Zayante in April of 2002. The platform is designed to run on multiple embedded and real-time operating systems, and provides a rich collection of FireWire services. The core services provide bus management, configuration, transactions, and real-time transfer, generic to any FireWire device. Additional layers support common FireWire protocols such as SBP-2 and AV/C, including a rich collection of AV/C sub-units.