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Running Mac OS X on x86 PC!

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1) genie effect runs real well, but not butter smooth yet :) (It runs only butter smooth when i used the itunes "zoom" mode)

2) connection to the net will be very later

3) When time passes, it hope to get to 1/10 of cpu speed. It wont be perfect but usable :) right now, its at probably 1/39

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  stealthx said:
i say 5-6 months,and we got OSX running at 100% speed

unless u are implying that we have an x86 version of MAC OSX, I don't think any emulator can emulate at 100% of your CPU, i mean, just look at Virtual PC, how long that's been out especially on x86 computers, yet still not even close.

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  XiXora said:
dude read from step 10 :)

That doesnt work

Im in step 5 and I cant see what the step said: "you should see the main startup screen, with just the .iso "cdrom" listed as bootable"

btw Here's my config file

ppc_start_resolution=4
redraw_interval_msec=200
prom_driver_graphic = "video.x"
cpu_pvr=0x00088302
memory_size=0x8000000
prom_bootmethod="auto"
prom_env_machargs="-v"
pci_ide0_master_installed=1
pci_ide0_master_image="PantherImage.img"
pci_ide0_master_type="hd"
pci_ide0_slave_installed=1
pci_ide0_slave_image="macosx1.iso"
pci_ide0_slave_type="cdrom"
#pci_3c90x_installed=0
#pci_3c90x_mac="de:ad:ca:fe:12:34"
pci_usb_installed=1
nvram_file="nvram"

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I tested the lastest official release (0.1.2) in Longhorn build 4074, and it was really slow. The cmd windows showed up first, but the main screen didn't even show up for a minute. (It's usually instant on XP). After that, everything seemed to slow down exponentially. I couldn't get to the Mac OSX boot screen without turning it off from boredom.

I'm not complaining, just reporting the results of my limited tests. ;)

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My clock is now moving at 15 seconds.

The minutes r changing every 15 seconds!!!!!!!!!

one of my friends, who loves macs, and has been using for longer then i know. said that they may have made the time a lot quicker on purpose. OS X's visual effect are time based, so on a fast computer the effects look good in normal time. But in order to make the effects look like right on a machine that is as slow as PearPC they sped the time up.

Don't know if it's true or not, but it makes sense.

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Yup, PearPeeler's nice too...btw, program's in English ;)

EDIT: Just a quick question, with the .2pre version of PearPC, I get artifacts ("left-behind" clips of moved windows and such). Is my refresh too low? I have it set to 15 and it was butter smooth under 1.1/1.2 :shifty:

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