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]

[Dazzla Veteran]

Glad I still had my Panther CDs, first time I've seen a kernal panic as well. But it's there, click the thumbnail:

[Timan Veteran]

You don't need to install darwin - just use the OSX CD (image it first) and images provided on PearPC website.

hmm i did make images but the cds didn't boot, it said install darwin first. :s

[Liquid]

Glad I still had my Panther CDs, first time I've seen a kernal panic as well. But it's there, click the thumbnail:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sherry.pontin...earPC1Thumb.jpg

Im gonna go out and buy panther right now!!!

[Lexcyn]

Glad I still had my Panther CDs, first time I've seen a kernal panic as well. But it's there, click the thumbnail:

:blink: How'd you get it to work? lol I can't wait to get this working at home! :D

[Ridgeburner]

Another one of Dazzla's jokes :laugh:

I fell for it last time :no:

But this looks promising..."aquiring" panther now.

[FatCat]

Glad I still had my Panther CDs, first time I've seen a kernal panic as well. But it's there, click the thumbnail:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sherry.pontin...earPC1Thumb.jpg

the question is how does it run? is it really sluggish? can you please post a step by step guide how you set everything up? for people who don't even know how to install panther.. :)

[TranceSphere]

installing 10.3 now :D

its very very slow

takes about 10 sec's for the menu to come up and the mouse jumps a lot.

I think i will stick with my g4 :p

Edited May 10, 2004 by TranceSphere

[rocks1985]

unbelievable....

[Liquid]

this is nice but also hard to beleive. Screenshots mean nothign to me, anyone can easily take a ss of there mac and paste it in the window. Someone use a digital camera and take a pic.

[uniacid]

is there any way to rip the image without using a mac? :/

[Lexcyn]

Another one of Dazzla's jokes :laugh:

:o lol a joke eh? Bah. I was all excited to run Panther at home! Hehe, well, I just hope it wasn't a joke. :p

[aldo]

You need to make them using disk utility, and make sure you use 'cd master' mode as opposed to the standard. You should get a filename ending in .cdr, copy that from your mac to your PC and then mount that using the PearPC config file.

[Ridgeburner]

Well Im sure the emulator itself isn't a joke, but I'm almost positive Dazzla's screenshot was :laugh:

[TranceSphere]

Use alcohol 120% to rip the cd to ISO

[rocks1985]

So does it run all the animations of OS X? like genie effect and Expose?

[Lexcyn]

Well Im sure the emulator itself isn't a joke, but I'm almost positive Dazzla's screenshot was :laugh:

Darn! :laugh: *sigh* Too bad it wasn't real! I want OSX... but Mac's are expensive. :pinch:

[Dazzla Veteran]

this is nice but also hard to beleive. Screenshots mean nothign to me, anyone can easily take a ss of there mac and paste it in the window. Someone use a digital camera and take a pic.

It's still sat there:

[boocher]

Hey Dazzla,

What todo list and calendar program is that? Quite nice! :)

_--boocher

[Starman]

Buy a cheap Mac. :D Yes, there are cheap Macs out there despite what you might have heard. Check eBay, you'll be surprised.

But seriously...I'm going to try this when I get home. I have a 1.4GHz P4 sitting around that I can put it on.

I don't see how practical this is at this point, and I have to check the EULA but I believe there's a stipulation about running OS X on anything BUT Apple hardware. I hope these guys have lawyers.

Mike

[Steve]

So does it run all the animations of OS X? like genie effect and Expose?

Mate , no offense, but are you having a laugh? People already talked about the prospective CPU Speed... Do you really think it'd be capable of such things, when it appears even the mouse cursor cannot move smoothly? :laugh:

[d66]

and thats why your mac clock is different from your windows clock ? cos erm macs are in the future right ? :unsure:

[Dazzla Veteran]

The Mac clock is US time (default). I live in the UK so the Windows time is my time, I just never bothered changing the Mac time during setup.

And to answer rocks1985, it's just kernal panicking all over the place and the actual PearPC crashing all the time, you can't do anything with it, it's just booted to the default desktop and that's it.

[FatCat]

It's still sat there:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sherry.ponting/Junk/PearPC2.jpg

I think it froze we need another pose. :laugh:

[#Michael]

Hey Dazzla,

What todo list and calendar program is that? Quite nice! :)

_--boocher

That is a program called rainlendar

[rocks1985]

I wonder what Steve Jobs is thinking right now...