Unlike most people, I found no offensive odor at all when powering on my DHO804.
And unlike most people, I've not found the fan offensive. Would love it silent (no fan) but it's not as bad as I thought based on what other people said.
I also completed the hack, largely using this video...
But I did it using an Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro.
Sadly, batch files don't work on the vastly superior computing platform we know as the Mac.
You therefore must install Parallels Desktop Trial (Windows on Arm), but there are yet more hoops to jump through.
You can't download the
Hack ZIP archive and leave it in the normal location or Windows (in Parallels) will complain that UNC paths are not supported. Blasted all! The workaround is to move the decompressed ZIP folder into your /Program Files (within Parallels Desktop). But then it still won't work because you must edit Properties and change permissions so contents of that folder can be edited/added!! Then you need to run the *.bat file as Administrator via right-click on the *.bat.
Of course, your scope must be connected to your local network (I used an Ethernet cable), and you need to edit the *.bat file as explained in the video, which I did, of course, prior to what I just told you. In the end it worked, but there needs to be a Mac version that is not a *.bat file but rather an *.sh file which will run in the MacOS Terminal. That would eliminate the use of Parallels Desktop entirely, which is a huge headache.
Anyway, my DHO804 is not 100MHz with 50M memory, and no silly DHO900-series non-functional menus to mess with my mind. It's the ideal setup.