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]

[the evn show]

  AquaFX said:

if x200 is 512 mb's of ram, what would 1024 mb's of ram be in binary?

Why not ask google? She'll tell you it's 0x400

By the by: 0x200 is Hex, 0x200 = 512, typically you'll prefix binary numbers with "0b" and hexidecimal numbers with "0x", base 10 numbers are typically just written as is.

[KeR]

i hope they manage to get Network support in a future release of PearPC, would be really nice.

[misecia]

The thread seems to be becoming nothing more than a big advert for Bit Torrent :no:

After all this how many of you would seriously consider getting a Mac, rather than all this messing around :wacko:

[Fonze]

  misecia said:

The thread seems to be becoming nothing more than a big advert for Bit Torrent :no:

After all this how many of you would seriously consider getting a Mac, rather than all this messing around :wacko:

I was considering getting a used G3 or G4 just to be able to screw arround on a mac, but now i don't have to.

the install was really easy and didn't take very long. It's slow, but i know that will change.

[TheLegendOfMart]

  misecia said:

The thread seems to be becoming nothing more than a big advert for Bit Torrent :no:

After all this how many of you would seriously consider getting a Mac, rather than all this messing around :wacko:

Me, i was looking at getting a cheap G3 Snow Ibook to break me in to OSX, then maybe a better mac at some point down the line, just trying to install it now on PPC

[jedavis1]

  misecia said:

The thread seems to be becoming nothing more than a big advert for Bit Torrent  :no:

After all this how many of you would seriously consider getting a Mac, rather than all this messing around  :wacko:

Why is it that so many people think that every one here is into warez and illegally copying software? I happen to own a G5, tiBook and a Beige Beauty... and I have still put hours/days into getting this to run and trying to help others. No illegal software! The pure geek-ness of running OS X on x86 architecture is the reason for it...

I have been following Mac on PC emulation since 93 or 94 when Executor Dos first came out, since then Basilisk II, Softmac, Fusion PC, vMac and a few others have came out... Why is it that people can't see this as a Hobby for many and inspiration that it can actually be done?

Anyone remember Mt. Everest? Why in the heck somebody would want to risk death... because it's there.

As someone who has been accused of warez/pirating... please lay off and stick to topic of helping/fine tuning this inspirational achievement.

[AquaFX]

the isntalltion went fine but when i wen to boot it, i get this error, help plz?

[misecia]

I admit that its a good advert for the Mac, but who would really go out and spend $150 on an operating system not designed for their system and hence probably won't work, or would spend hours/days trying to get it working only to get fed up of it after a few days...??

[S.MULLA]

  jedavis1 said:

Why is it that so many people think that every one here is into warez and illegally copying software? I happen to own a G5, tiBook and a Beige Beauty... and I have still put hours/days into getting this to run and trying to help others. No illegal software! The pure geek-ness of running OS X on x86 architecture is the reason for it...

I have been following Mac on PC emulation since 93 or 94 when Executor Dos first came out, since then Basilisk II, Softmac, Fusion PC, vMac and a few others have came out... Why is it that people can't see this as a Hobby for many and inspiration that it can actually be done?

Anyone remember Mt. Everest? Why in the heck somebody would want to risk death... because it's there.

As someone who has been accused of warez/pirating... please lay off and stick to topic of helping/fine tuning this inspirational achievement.

well said.. :yes:

[five04]

  AquaFX said:

the isntalltion went fine but when i wen to boot it, i get this error, help plz?

10. Go into your config file and change the "prom_env_machargs" to read "-s". Thats SMALL s, not capital s. Obviously if the line is commented out, remove the # so it works. Boot the machine from the CD again as before. This eventually leaves you with the shell/command prompt, and we're about to tackle the job that Darwin would've been used for if it were needed. Type "pdisk" to start the partition tool.

11. Type "e" (without quote marks) then hit enter.

12. For name of device enter "/dev/disk0". Again, no quote marks.

13. Press "p" to view the partition table. The 3rd one actually needs to be moved up to 2 to make it bootable. So...

14. Press "r" to go into partition reordering mode.

15. Enter the number of that partition (3).

16. Enter 2 to move it to the second position.

17. Hit w to write the partition table, check it using p again if you want to confirm it is all okay.

18. Hit q to quit, then hit it again.q. Type reboot which will close PearPC.

19. Go into the config file and comment out the "prom_env_machargs", which will leave the standard mac bootup screen rather than the verbose mode when you now restart PearPC.

i had this problem on just the last page. dazzla helped me out.

[Redestium]

  misecia said:

I admit that its a good advert for the Mac, but who would really go out and spend $150 on an operating system not designed for their system and hence probably won't work, or would spend hours/days trying to get it working only to get fed up of it after a few days...??

That?s not the case for everyone, taking this thread as evidence.

[niteowl]

I have always been a fan of Macintosh computers and will probably purchase one within the next six months to a year.

This PearPC truely cannot compare to the real thing (of course), but it's cool to experiment with this anyways.

[KeR]

I actually bought a legal version of Mac OS X from ebay for $10 bucks.....just so I can mess with it in PearPC got it installed and working, now that I can actually run OS X I don't see what the big deal about it is, XP seems just so much better.

[Dazzla Veteran]

Nice one, judging an OSX from a buggy, super slow emulator which has no real representation of the OS in use at all. Genious, give that guy an award!

Back OT, wouldn't something like an A64 cope better with the emulation because of it's extra registers?

[jedavis1]

I have a video question?

Is the video.x file really needed in Windows? or is it a Linux only driver?

I was experimenting with settings a while ago and commented it out, and forgot about it... I have 10.2.8 installed and running without any trouble... It is slow, but I haven't noticed a difference with it.

Just askin'

Jon

[AquaFX]

  five04 said:

10. Go into your config file and change the "prom_env_machargs" to read "-s". Thats SMALL s, not capital s. Obviously if the line is commented out, remove the # so it works. Boot the machine from the CD again as before. This eventually leaves you with the shell/command prompt, and we're about to tackle the job that Darwin would've been used for if it were needed. Type "pdisk" to start the partition tool.

11. Type "e" (without quote marks) then hit enter.

12. For name of device enter "/dev/disk0". Again, no quote marks.

13. Press "p" to view the partition table. The 3rd one actually needs to be moved up to 2 to make it bootable. So...

14. Press "r" to go into partition reordering mode.

15. Enter the number of that partition (3).

16. Enter 2 to move it to the second position.

17. Hit w to write the partition table, check it using p again if you want to confirm it is all okay.

18. Hit q to quit, then hit it again.q. Type reboot which will close PearPC.

19. Go into the config file and comment out the "prom_env_machargs", which will leave the standard mac bootup screen rather than the verbose mode when you now restart PearPC.

i had this problem on just the last page. dazzla helped me out.

i didn't use darwin

[five04]

so? you don't have to use darwin. that's the whole point of this. it boots up off the install cd of os x into a command line environment where you do all this.

also in the first step listed there it says "and we're about to tackle the job that Darwin would've been used for if it were needed."

[niteowl]

  jedavis1 said:

I have a video question?

Is the video.x file really needed in Windows? or is it a Linux only driver?

I was experimenting with settings a while ago and commented it out, and forgot about it... I have 10.2.8 installed and running without any trouble... It is slow, but I haven't noticed a difference with it.

Just askin'

Jon

You're running OS X without the video.x file? Hmmm..

According to this

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

There is something in the config file called

prom_driver_graphic which has a value of "video.x"

  Quote

A special graphic driver prom should load. ("video.x" if you want to boot Mac OS X)

In Linux, it wouldn't let me try to install OS X or Darwin without the video.x file.

[Dazzla Veteran]

Installing 10.3.3 then it's time to get customizing :devil:

[KeR]

  Dazzla said:

Nice one, judging an OSX from a buggy, super slow emulator which has no real representation of the OS in use at all. Genious, give that guy an award!

Back OT, wouldn't something like an A64 cope better with the emulation because of it's extra registers?

I have tried the real thing before, never did liked it the only thing PearPC did today is affirm this!

[particleWave]

Does anyone know if PearPC is faster in Linux than in windows?

I am going to install it on my Fedora box tonight and check, so I'll

post my findings later.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for all their help getting this cool

software up and running.

...well almost everyone, hehe...

[Redestium]

  particleWave said:

Does anyone know if PearPC is faster in Linux than in windows?

I am going to install it on my Fedora box tonight and check, so I'll

post my findings later.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for all their help getting this cool

software up and running.

...well almost everyone, hehe...

Yeah, that'd be an interesting test.

[cpu killer]

Tried installing - install was a success, but when I try to boot into OSX after the install it says it found no bootable partitions...any ideas? 0,o..

[niteowl]

I'm installing Mac OS X (using PearPC) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux box.

The install is a tiny bit faster than it was in Windows and it seems to be more stable too.

I'll have to run the OS when it finishing installing to make a more accurate analysis about it's condition.

[phalanx126]

hmm, everytime i try to install it i get 'blah blah blah not recognized as an internal command' :(