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Running Mac OS X on x86 PC!

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so i went and snagged a copy of bochs 2.1.1 to make an image of a hard drive because i couldnt use the ones on the site and i all i get is the size is wrong... not a multiple of 516096... ok, im aware of this by this point, but what is a multiple of that that will be smaller than say 3 gig or less??

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well i must say this is good but its so slow if only we could work how to make it go faster then

10 MHZ LOL then this would be sweet its a big break threw i have to say

i'm trying to install panther now

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atleast im getting somewhere

might try 2 versions one with darwin installed and one without darwin to see how it goes

http://members.iinet.net.au/~joz/osx1.JPG

actually wondering if anyone has played with the ram hex in the config file ichanged it to 0x080000 and it still ran but i dont really know what its doing

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atleast im getting somewhere

might try 2 versions one with darwin installed and one without darwin to see how it goes

http://members.iinet.net.au/~joz/osx1.JPG

actually wondering if anyone has played with the ram hex in the config file ichanged it to 0x080000 and it still ran but i dont really know what its doing

My (actualyl neighbours) cd will be here tomorrow or the next day :) Can't wait to try this :)

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Well, this is the 0.1 version. Apparently the JITC (Just it time compiler) version is going to be anywhere between 10-100 times faster.

Add to this the fact that it will be easy for someone with a bit of know-how to start selling PCs with OSX pre-installed (running ontop of say, Debian) and having everything working as soon as you get it out of the box, will mean that Apple is looking in a BAD position with this tool.

If it got a lot faster and a translation from OSX graphic requests straight into the windows driver was possible, it would mean that all the effects would work too.

This is going to be very intresting and I'm sure when Apple hears about this they will not be very happy.

And what exactly will apple do? If you know anything about emulation history you should be fully aware the courts have consistantly ruled (in most western nations) that emulators are perfectly legal unless they are directly including copyrighted code.

So unless apple can prove this emulator is composed of code they have written they don't have a legal leg to stand on.

Aditionally, emulators exist for a variety of consoles. (and even other computer systems) I have yet to see any evidence that they have damaged the company that produces the hardware in any way. In fact, it could actually HELP in some cases. Take the Xbox for instance. At times the Xbox is costing them more to make than what they are selling it for. Like Sony and Nintendo the REAL money comes from SOFTWARE sales NOT hardware.

Personally I enjoy using emulators for my playstation 1 games especially as I am final fantasy fan. Get your self final fantasy 8 and run it on a playstation one. Then run it on the latest epsxe with Pete's latest GPU. Graphics are FAR FAR enhanced over the PS1. You have to see it to believe it.

Anyway, I see nothing wrong with running software on different hardware so long as you have bought the software.

By the way - even *IF* apple complained about this - does anyone remember when Apple themselves released software to run Windows (or windows apps) way back when and included it with their systems? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black... Even Microsoft didn't have the balls to challenge them on that. I would love to see that little fact brought up in court.

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