Maui X-Stream has released , an open-source PowerPC architecture emulator available for the PC. Version 0.3.1 was released last September 2004.
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They still wish they could tremble before the Mighty G5. Play with your G4. Yea right like I'd cut off my d*** to become a woman. I'll stick with my dual G5. Keep your cherry.
Hey, check out this thread on slashdot.
People are suggesting that Cherry OS is derived from PearPC, an open-source emulator.
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Will it go like Virtual PC and get purchased by Apple. Strategic implications here...
On my Athlon 2600+, CherryOS is unusably slow. My old PowerBook G3/233 with XPostFacto runs Panther at least 3 times as fast.
Nevertheless, if you don't own a Mac and only want to test how web pages look on the Mac or if your RealBasic app cross-compiled on Windows really works, CherryOS might be interesting.
@beyere: CherryOS is not nearly as fast as VirtualPC - it's not even as fast as Qemu. But it's faster than Bochs :-)
They took PearPC, an open source project, and wrapped it in a VB wrapper for Windows. And contrary to what this article says there is no drag & drop support.
Like someone already said, check out the Slashdot story.
Indications are strong that CherryOS is a re=packaged PearPC. CherryOS does not violate the GPL as long as the source is available. You can charge for binary distributions if you want, but the source must be freely if said source is derived from GPL'ed code.
Tsilou has it right -- CherryOS is completely unusable for normal activity, but if you have a couple of hours to kill for bootup and another hour to kill opening a web browser and checking that your HTML code works in Safari, then by all means spend $50 on a hijacked program.
If you just want to try out Mac OS X... you can get a Beige G3 for less than $50, and it'll run much much faster.
Welcome to Macnn - post a flamebait article and let the kids go at it.
Right now the PearPC is about technical achievement - emulation of PowerPC architecture on x86 - not as a replacement of OS X on PPC. Comment on it being slow is like what Dr. Watson says when he is constipated: "no s*** Sherlock."
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Oy gavolt!
Is this thing for real? How does its performance match up to its analogue on the Mac, VPC/XP?