Running Mac OS X on x86 PC!

[S.MULLA]

a new emulator called PearPC seems to be able to run OS X on x86 machines:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/index.html

Check out the screenshots:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

source:aqua-soft.org [forum]

[klop]

I dont think PearPC use HyperThreading its might be why you only get a 320MHz...

Anyway this number isnt accurate, its different everytime I use PearPC :p

600th post yay! :laugh:

[dissonation]

i really want to have a go at this but im petrified of screwing up my pc (just spent over a week setting up all the pcs in thehouse and wireless network stuff)

anyone fancy talking me through it on msn?

cheers :)

[SAMeAiM]

damn, mine says 750 MHz :D :D :D :D

But i got a damn weird problem... it should be in 800x600 x 15 but its over 1024x768 :wacko:

[_I am Reptar]

i cant get the SDL build to run,can someone help me,it i got the sdl.dll in there,but the Pearpc box just pops and goes away,can someone help?

[autodefe]

i cant get the SDL build to run,can someone help me,it i got the sdl.dll in there,but the Pearpc box just pops and goes away,can someone help?

Run it via command prompt so you can see what error message is being shown before it quits.

[jkabaseball]

i get a pop up window that says it wasn't found and to reinstall it.

[_I am Reptar]

i got it working,sorry,i was just confused for a minute

[SAMeAiM]

I also got another weird problem, my mouse "go out" of the pearpc window and out to my desktop :s

So my mouse is "FUBAR" :rolleyes:

So i can't even get the system information box to see how many MHz it "gives" me :(

But i got 750 MHz on my laptop, but the mouse is also "FUBAR" but i some how manged to get the system information box :)

But is there a fix for that mouse bug?

[jkabaseball]

i got it working,sorry,i was just confused for a minute

where did you get the dll

[_I am Reptar]

HERE :D

[Emon]

i really want to have a go at this but im petrified of screwing up my pc (just spent over a week setting up all the pcs in thehouse and wireless network stuff)

anyone fancy talking me through it on msn?

cheers :)

sure .. I got nothing to do today .. check ur PM ..

[pctuk]

I haven't followed this thread for a while and wondered if someone could answer a couple of questions on the progress:

Is it still incredibly slow? Does the reported speed related to the speed it is operating at - is it running at the equivalent of 500Mhz speed-wise for you guys that have this in your about box?

Cheers

[Emon]

I haven't followed this thread for a while and wondered if someone could answer a couple of questions on the progress:

Is it still incredibly slow? Does the reported speed related to the speed it is operating at - is it running at the equivalent of 500Mhz speed-wise for you guys that have this in your about box?

Cheers

not incredibly slow .. I have an iMac 333 .. it runs kinda like 2x/3x slower than my iMac .. even though it says 559 MHz

[SAMeAiM]

is it only me thats got problems with the mouse and screen ?, couse it weird since its the same on my desktop and laptop :(

[panoz]

hrm.. my keyboard doesn't work.. or it does, but the keys are remapped? :blink:

anyone?

[jkabaseball]

thanks!

mine runs at 850

mines not that fast, but its finally usable. Now if i could get to the internet........

I still can't get the networkd drivers. I try to boot without the #'s and it won't.

i get a can not locate any tap-win32 device error

Edited June 13, 2004 by jkabaseball

[urizen]

This new SDL build with the new clock is really awesome, I'm typing this reply in Camino and took this screenshot and then converted it to JPEG using Photoshop - all on a PearPC Mac :)

[_I am Reptar]

photoshop? what the fu.......isn't photoshop slow on it? my pearpc runs fine but enough for PS?!

EDIT: what redraw rate are you running at?

[eaglebtc]

photoshop? what the fu.......isn't photoshop slow on it? my pearpc runs fine but enough for PS?!

EDIT: what redraw rate are you running at?

Photoshop runs fine; it just takes about a minute to fully load. Most of us are using the SDL, so there is no 'redraw' rate. It's as fast as it can go.

[urizen]

photoshop? what the fu.......isn't photoshop slow on it? my pearpc runs fine but enough for PS?!

EDIT: what redraw rate are you running at?

Yes, it is quite slow but still useable, much faster than I expected. Actually the whole system runs surprisingly well.

The worse thing about PearPC is that having experienced MacOSX I feel a sudden urge to buy myself a Mac. :happy: Now the question is: where to get money from?...

[_I am Reptar]

wait,i'm running the SDL build too,but my config says redraw rate,urizen,can you give me your config plz?

[urizen]

My redraw is set to 50 but it's from my old config from before the SDL build so I guess now the setting is useless.

[_I am Reptar]

ok,thnx,could you give me your config anyways,pm me or something plz

[urizen]

Here's my entire config but I don't think it will be of any use, I guess it's pretty standard:

ppc_start_resolution = 8
redraw_interval_msec = 50
prom_bootmethod = "auto"
prom_env_machargs = ""
memory_size=0x20000000
pci_ide0_master_installed = 1
pci_ide0_master_image = "C:\SMacOS\HD-OS-X-Panther-PREP.img"
pci_ide0_slave_installed = 1
pci_ide0_slave_image = "C:\SMacOS\AppZorz\IsoZ\DMGTOOL.ISO"
pci_ide0_slave_type = "cdrom"
pci_rtl8139_installed = 1
pci_rtl8139_mac = "de:ad:ca:fe:12:34"
pci_usb_installed = 1
nvram_file = "nvram"

[Pootis Spencer]

Nearly running at 1GHZ.

;)

Can't get internet to work because it keeps bumping my wireless connection out when I bridge the two connections.

New build is very fast though.

Still a little slugish but its coming on really well.