PowerPC Emulation

[Johnny]

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.

[Grave]

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.

[lithium]

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.

[Yoshi]

Why would anyone want to neuter their PC?

[Diff-chan]

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.

[lithium]

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.

[Shin Johnpv]

Irix is better than everything else

[Calliander]

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.