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Briefly: Mac XP contest; eMac issue

updated 02:05 pm EST, Thu March 23, 2006

Mac XP contest, eMac issue


In brief: Another contest has begun with a current bounty of roughly $600, this time urging developers to get Windows XP running on a Mac within a virtualization application.... Some eMac users are experiencing freezes with distorted graphics, which many on Apple's support forum believe to be a logic board failure.... The Red Hot Chili Peppers have made their music available exclusively through iTunes, offering the band's catalog with unreleased bonus material and exclusive videos.... Microsoft is offering large businesses a first chance to upgrade to Windows Vista before desktop users, but many say companies will wait to upgrade as they have in the past.... Bodelin Technologies has launched ProScope CSI, a weekly video podcast aimed at science students and ascending forensic investigators.


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  1. Feathers

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    03/23, 03:33pm | report spam | Reply |

    2002 emac problem, WTF?

    I knew that MacNN weren't exactly up to date but posting about a problem that dates back four years afflicting a Mac that has been discontinued seems a bit odd, but of course, if they can't come up with new bad McNews, they'll dig up old stuff. Beginning to wonder has MacNN been bought by Ziff-Davis?

  1. tomodachi

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    03/23, 03:35pm | report spam | Reply |

    Hmm

    I don't "get" this contest. I mean, isn't this like asking for someone to develop a free VMWare for OSX? (Which, I think they're already developing... that is, a non-free version).

    Even if the prize money goes up to the same level, i.e., 14,000 bucks or so, it would still seem pretty cheap compared to what the developer probably could make if s/he *sold* the dang VMWare for OSX as shareware. 5,000 copies at $20 (which I'd happily pay for something like this, but is much less than what some people are putting up for donation) would give the developer $100,000.

    He should let the developer receive the prize and still retain the right to sell it as a shareware, or else, I don't think there would be many people out there who'd want to do this. This is definitely not the same thing as adding/changing several lines in a bootloader file so that a WinXP CD would boot on an Inte/Mac.

  1. knoxer

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    03/23, 04:46pm | report spam | Reply |

    it's in progress already

    Here's the recipe:

    1) open source emulator 'qemu' + 1) virtualizer module 'kqemu' (closed source) or 1) virtualizer module 'qvm86' (open source)

    There are people working to bring these technologies to OSX already. Actually QEMU is already here for PPC and Intel (emulation only, no virtualization YET). I strongly recommend 'Q' from http://www.kberg.ch/q/ It's a cocoa program that's built on qemu.

  1. rtamesis

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    03/23, 06:17pm | report spam | Reply |

    MS loses

    Microsoft has to start cracking that whip at their Mac Business Unit if they want to keep Virtual PC at the head of the pack. If someone else succeeds in creating a virtualization app that lets Win XP run at nearly full speed within Mac OS X, then Virtual PC's sales will go straight to the toilet if they are still stuck in emulation.

  1. LouZer

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    03/23, 06:49pm | report spam | Reply |

    QEMU?

    Qemu isn't a virtualization application. Its an emulator. There's apparently a difference.

    And the emac hasn't been discontinued for education, if I recall. Just for consumers. And this may be a different problem with the ever problematic emac (but, then again, what mac of late doesn't have 'ever problematic' in front of its name).

  1. Toyin

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    03/23, 07:47pm | report spam | Reply |

    Soon?

    http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/vmware/

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