Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Got to their FAQ page...it does run on win 98,2000 too...Reading their answer to the CD-ROM question makes me wonder why they put firewall and usb ports in their answer??? :wacko: 584723854[/snapback] I think they meant "FireWire", not "firewall". Maybe a spellcheck fubar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriz UK Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Oh dear and it all goes down the pan, He's probably sitting on about $50k+ Now. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopper Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 I think they meant "FireWire", not "firewall". Maybe a spellcheck fubar. 584724450[/snapback] i suggested that already here ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted October 13, 2004 Veteran Share Posted October 13, 2004 I thought I heard that the software (CherryOS) is still being tested. 584724438[/snapback] Well it's out for sale, so I guess it's a complete product, not in any alpha/beta/testing stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AQUaDeX Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Oh dear and it all goes down the pan, He's probably sitting on about $50k+ Now.Chris 584724475[/snapback] nope, coz his order system doesn't even work :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmuZombie Veteran Posted October 13, 2004 Veteran Share Posted October 13, 2004 If it's fake: Traffic isn't cheap. Especially traffic generated from Slashdot alone (sorry folks, as big as Neowin is, it's very very small to compared to the "slashdot effect.") My guess is, his service provider is not going to be happy, but will happily charge him extra for the extra bandwidth. Meaning, in effect the hoax, if it is one, will cost this person hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. That alone is punishment enough, and I'm sure that's the only reason Slashdot even reported on it, they're well aware the effect they have :D If it's real: well, yay! Now we have a PowerPC emulator..... However, if you want my personal opinion, based on his responses, I'd say its fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redestium Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 If it's fake: Traffic isn't cheap. Especially traffic generated from Slashdot alone (sorry folks, as big as Neowin is, it's very very small to compared to the "slashdot effect.") My guess is, his service provider is not going to be happy, but will happily charge him extra for the extra bandwidth. Meaning, in effect the hoax, if it is one, will cost this person hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. That alone is punishment enoughIf it's real: well, yay! Now we have a PowerPC emulator..... However, if you want my personal opinion, based on his responses, I'd say its fake. 584724578[/snapback] If it's real I think he's going to be paying through the nose in fines. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 i suggested that already here ;) 584724478[/snapback] I had not read your comment when I replied to him, sorry. Was simply reading through the forum and answered the question when I got to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) I finally got a good capture of the screen that leads some people to believe that this is a rip-off of PearPC. It is the selection screen for the bootable partitions, and it appears for about 1/2 of a second between the CherryOS logo and the Apple logo screens. It does bear a striking resemblance to the screen from PearPC. Does anyone have a screenshot handy from PearPC to compare it to? edit: added PearPC boot screenshot for comparison. Unfortunately, when I made this, I didn't have a valid bootable partition defined, but you can see the strong resemblance. edit 2: changed PearPC boot screenshot. Now showing non-bootable partition information. Edited October 13, 2004 by roadwarrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted October 13, 2004 MVC Share Posted October 13, 2004 Well, I can see the use for this if you are developing cross platform software, but my opinion is, if you love Mac OS so much, go and buy a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastian_insua Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Oh well..... We can only hope that Quicktransit isn't fake... Quicktransit: http://www.transitive.com/features.htm (although it probably is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Oh well.....We can only hope that Quicktransit isn't fake... Quicktransit: http://www.transitive.com/features.htm (although it probably is) 584724979[/snapback] After reading this on their page, I wonder if that is the technology Microsoft is going to use for the Xbox 2 : Gaming OEM Note that their example picture shows a Power Processor for the physical hardware, and x86 for the emulated hardware? What game system do we all know of that uses an x86 processor, with reports of using a Power-based processor in the next model?? Xbox, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Here's another screenshot of the PearPC boot selection screen, compared to the CherryOS boot selection screen from their demo video. If nothing else, they used this part of the code, with only minor text changes. These two screens are too similar to be mere coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonze Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Here's another screenshot of the PearPC boot selection screen, compared to the CherryOS boot selection screen from their demo video. If nothing else, they used this part of the code, with only minor text changes. These two screens are too similar to be mere coincidence. 584725022[/snapback] a simple boot menu convention is no evidence that they copied pearpc. it just means that they took the same idea, of having boot partitions selectable at boot, and came up with a similar solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 a simple boot menu convention is no evidence that they copied pearpc. it just means that they took the same idea, of having boot partitions selectable at boot, and came up with a similar solution. 584725071[/snapback] Look closely at it. That is not merely "the same idea" or "a similar solution", it is the same text, right down to the spacing. That is not something that just happens without being directly copied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golazo Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 i doubt they copied it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 i doubt they copied it 584725162[/snapback] Might I ask why? At least I gave my reasons for thinking that they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted October 13, 2004 Veteran Share Posted October 13, 2004 Look closely at it.? That is not merely "the same idea" or "a similar solution", it is the same text, right down to the spacing.? That is not something that just happens without being directly copied. 584725157[/snapback] That's still too little to prove them fake/copiers. Having same/similar text in a boot/parition select screendoesn't imply anything really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 I never said it proved it, but that it was fairly convincing evidence that they might have at least copied some of the code from PearPC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 I never said it proved it, but that it was fairly convincing evidence that they might have at least copied some of the code from PearPC. 584725173[/snapback] Seriously.... how would you else display that. Considering it can only be text. It proves nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 I can think of several different ways to do a similar menu, and there is no requirement that it be text at that point (for example, the real boot selection menu on a Mac is graphical, similar to Boot Magic). The fact that much of it is word-for-word the same is at least suspicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted October 13, 2004 Veteran Share Posted October 13, 2004 Heh..I dunno but boot options screen is nothing I would base their authenticity upon. Like I said, until I see a review by someone who actually has the software, this software will be as good as Lindow's previous claims of emulating windows on linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 emulates a G4 CPU, G5 support is in development So they are saying they plan to emulate a 64-bit RISC processor on a 32-bit CISC platform? Yeah, sure. The 80% figure was fishy enough but come on. This all sounds like a hoax to me, perhaps using code from PearPC to further it's credibility. I guess we'll all just have to wait and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golazo Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 if they were to copy ppc why would they go word for word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 I will just wait as well for some one to write a review, and a comparison along side PearPC would be good to see the differences between them, like performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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