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Thread: PowerPC Emulation

  1. PowerPC Emulation

    http://pearpc.sourceforge.net

    These guys have put together a PowerPC emulator that allows you to run OS X on your PC. The emulator is in it's early stages still, so it's terribly slow, but interesting nonetheless.

  2. Awesome. I was wondering how long it'd take for PPC emulation to arrive. x86 emulation on PPC has been around for quite a while, and I even emulated a 68k Mac before I made the decision to buy an actual Mac years ago, but actual PPC emulation was nowhere to be found. Can't wait to see how this matures in the future.

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    lithium Guest
    I'd imagine that emulator will always be terribly slow; compared to the latest Macs anyway. Since an x86 is little endian and a ppc is big endian. That's a pretty damn big hurdle to get over.

    If I remember correctly (and I probably don't), the ppc can be put in little endian mode, which is what helped make x86 emulation on the Mac so doable.

  4. #4
    Why would anyone want to neuter their PC?

  5. Mac OSX > Windows

    If you think otherwise... you're an idiot.

    Say all you want about the lack of games on the Mac (but, in reality, 90% of the good ones come out for it, so all youre missing on the Mac is a lot of shovelware... the tragedy), but Mac OSX smokes Windows and a lot of the native software is way better too.

  6. #6
    lithium Guest
    Bleh. I just don't like any OS out there now. Mac OS Classic, if it could come with the modern underpinnings of OSX, would be the perfect OS IMO. I could bitch about Windows till the cows come home, all the Unices have their issues, and as cool as BeOS is, it has no software at all. I miss the glorious, ignorant days of Mac OS 8 where you just accepted the fact that rebooting every 30 minutes was part of running a computer. I have OSX on my ibook and I just can't stand the interface.

  7. Irix is better than everything else
    Where I play
    Quote Originally Posted by Dolemite
    I've changed my mind about Korian. Anyone that can piss off so many people so easily is awesome. You people are suckers, playing right into his evil yellow hands.

  8. Quote Originally Posted by lithium
    I miss the glorious, ignorant days of Mac OS 8 where you just accepted the fact that rebooting every 30 minutes was part of running a computer.
    Ha ha ha ha! If I didn't have the smartest thing ever said as my signature, this would be in there.

    This PPC emulation sounds cool, but I can't imagine being able to emulate a G3 or higher.

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