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Grand Master

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This project WILL DIE

Bye bye, PearPC.

Mike

incorrect again, just because you can install mac os x on this system does not mean it has anything to do with mac osx or apple. this is an emulated PPC chip that IBM developed completely unrelated to apple. so apple will have no say in what happens to this. also, the IBM chip's insutrction set is open to anyone that wants it, so this allows for reverse engineering of it's insruction set.

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I am using my brain. If this software allows users to violate Apple's license agreement, they have every right to shut it down.

Why is everyone so f*cking obnoxious?

Mike

But the user who decides to use this forOSX instead of a PPC Linux is the one violating the agreement. The situation only comes up when a user decides to use it illegaly.

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I am using my brain. If this software allows users to violate Apple's license agreement, they have every right to shut it down.

Why is everyone so f*cking obnoxious?

Mike

People could ask the same thing to you with your pretentious--Mac love--attitude in a Windows section of the forum.

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People could ask the same thing to you with your pretentious--Mac love--attitude in a Windows section of the forum.

Oh, you mean my responses to the ignorant statements like "there's no software for the Mac" or "hard drives don't work on the Mac" or "RAM doesn't work on the Mac" or...

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i cant get my panther disk boot..

it is just saying:

HFS+ has no backup volume header. skipping...

HFS+ has no backup volume header. skipping...

[iO/PROM] <Error> can?t open boot file

This happens to me on the images I created on a Mac using a third party utility (Sorry, I ain't infront of my mac, so I can't remember the software). The ISOs aren't compatible with PearPC. I had good luck with the shareware version of Alcohol120 using the ISO wizard part.

HTH,

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Oh, you mean my responses to the ignorant statements like "there's no software for the Mac" or "hard drives don't work on the Mac" or "RAM doesn't work on the Mac" or...

Mike

Well you are supposed to ignore that, the same way when someone goes into the Mac section and sees people saying inaccurate statements regarding Windows. Honestly, it?s not even worth the effort to educate these kinds of people.

Also let?s not forget how you were basically ****ting on Windows because of it?s lack of iApps (or comparable software)?which isn?t true.

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Also let?s not forget how you were basically ****ting on Windows because of it?s lack of iApps (or comparable software)?which isn?t true.

It's NOT?

So you're saying that Microsoft packages up a DVD builder? A Movie Editor (Movie Maker isn't even close to the same league)? A Photo Manager? Gee....I don't have them.

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Starman

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Hi I have tryed this but I can not get pased this screen.

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Try going into the Apple Menu->Disk Utility. See if the hard drive is seen there. If it is, partition and format it.

If not, check your config file. I had that problem when using an absolute path for the img file of the virtual hard drive.

I also tried removing the comment about the device being "hd".

Mike

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i dont believe it is mike.. as soon as apple flexes their muscles pearpc can then just not promote pictures of mac os x on their site etc. they just concentrate on linux ppc etc. the fact is its not made to run os x is run to emulate ppc. i could go on about microsoft and their PC not mac license of one per PC then how can make users emulate the x86 PC and run windows.. that would surely be against the license. o well.. not worth any more time discussing i dont think

anyway who knows what apple will do.. lets not argue over software issues and other things. (not aiming this at you mike.. just any1) lets just discuss this great app and report success people have been having :)

it does look pretty cool having a max inside a window on windows tho..

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I am using my brain. If this software allows users to violate Apple's license agreement, they have every right to shut it down.

Why is everyone so f*cking obnoxious?

Mike

So basically your saying they Microsoft should shut down VMware? Just because you can run Windows on it does mean it was intended to. Apple may be able to go after the people that use OSX on PearPC but not the deveolpers.

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It's NOT?

So you're saying that Microsoft packages up a DVD builder? A Movie Editor (Movie Maker isn't even close to the same league)? A Photo Manager? Gee....I don't have them.

MIke

Did I mention bundling? No. MS would be in court if they did that, though Apple seems to get away with it on a number of levels (QT being a big one with its integration).

Third party software would suffice for iApps.

This is off topic though so feel free to make another thread in respect to this and I'll be happy to discuss it there.

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So basically your saying they Microsoft should shut down VMware? Just because you can run Windows on it does mean it was intended to. Apple may be able to go after the people that use OSX on PearPC but not the deveolpers.

Uh, no, because there's nothing in the Windows license agreement that says that you have to use MS-branded hardware. DID I SAY THAT? NO.

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Did I mention bundling? No. MS would be in court if they did that, though Apple seems to get away with it on a number of levels (QT being a big one with its integration).

Third party software would suffice for iApps.

This is off topic though so feel free to make another thread in respect to this and I'll be happy to discuss it there.

You said:

Also let?s not forget how you were basically ****ting on Windows because of it?s lack of iApps (or comparable software)?which isn?t true.

Since I'm trying to compare apples to apples (no pun intended), I was DIRECTLY comparing what you get for FREE from OS X vs. what you get for FREE from Windows. How can you compare what you get for free on one platform vs. what you have to pay for on another? By that I might was well say "Final Cut Pro" and end the conversation right then and there.

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I am using my brain. If this software allows users to violate Apple's license agreement, they have every right to shut it down.

Why is everyone so f*cking obnoxious?

Mike

Your not using your brain, its not for emulating apple hardware, its for emulating PPC hardware, whats so hard to understand.

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You said:

Since I'm trying to compare apples to apples (no pun intended), I was DIRECTLY comparing what you get for FREE from OS X vs. what you get for FREE from Windows. How can you compare what you get for free on one platform vs. what you have to pay for on another? By that I might was well say "Final Cut Pro" and end the conversation right then and there.

Mike

What gives, Microsoft bundles a load of software with windows, Microsoft gets sued, Microsoft has to remove said software, Apple bundles a load of software with Mac OSX, Everyone thinks the sun shines out of Apples ass, the end.

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What gives, Microsoft bundles a load of software with windows, Microsoft gets sued, Microsoft has to remove said software, Apple bundles a load of software with Mac OSX, Everyone thinks the sun shines out of Apples ass, the end.

Apple doesn't integrate their apps with the OS. Is that too hard to comprehend?

Have you tried uninstalling IE lately?

Mike

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