PowerPC Architecture Emulator Unleashed 124
Sebastian Biallas writes "We have finally released version 0.1 of our PowerPC architecture emulator: PearPC. The emulator itself is (prepared to be) architecture independent but only tested on x86s (here you go porters...). It also features a must faster just-in-time compilation unit for x86 hosts. This means that you can now run your favourite PowerPC-OS on x86: Mandrake Linux (9.1), Darwin (6 + 7) and Mac OS X (10.3)! And the best things is: it's GPL'd.
But be warned: it's experimental.."
Re:Why not use it natively? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why not use it natively? (Score:5, Funny)
You've got to have:
Mandrake running
on PowerPC
on PearPC simulator
on Virtual PC
on VMWare
on XBox
on
To get be reported on
The trick then, is to withstand the
And take a screenshot of the smoking machine.
Then you get the "Immortal" rating.
Then, just may be, you can get rooted.
Re:Why not use it natively? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not the first (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Panther on x86? (Score:4, Funny)
When I was first trying to make the decision to buy a mac, spending 5 minutes or 30
minutes "playing" with it at the store wasn't enough. I wanted to spend several days
on it, using it to do all the things i do now, but in a different enviornment. You
can't do that in the shop.
Hmm - But you could play a total of 45 hours of "testing" in this emulator - and still havent done as much as 3½ minut on the real deal?
yeah! (Score:1, Funny)
OK, so it's slow, but look how CHEAP it is. (Score:3, Funny)
With just a little bit of work and a decent motherboard you can put together a smokin' Wintel box for $400, tops and, well, sure, the eMac includes a monitor but you probably already have one.
So what if it runs at 1/200 the speed of a Mac? Hey, put a cooler on the chip and overclock it, then it will run at 1/100 the speed of the Mac!
And for less than half the price!
Well, OK, for $0.50 more than half price.