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Darwin for PPC: Runs well Mac OS X 10.3: Runs well with some caveats OpenBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting (accesses PCI in an unsupported way) NetBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting AIX for PPC: Some people ask about that. Runs very well afterwards. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC after installation: Hard to boot.

See Also: Best Xbox Emulators for PC. Though you canвЂ™t play any commercial games on this emulator, but you can run homebrew programs and games on it. Yet another open-source GameCube emulator, which can run least one commercial games with full emulation. There's no PPC emulation going on, really, with apps like SheepShaver the PPC chip itself is used, not a full emulation ofn the chip.Download Dolphin. For example, the modern ROM does not contain a 68K emulator or the nanokernel.First of all, the 'emulators' you speak of for PPC machines aren't really emulators at all, they use the PPC processor natively, just allowing a MacOS that could run on that machine anyway, to run simultaneously under BeOS or Linux.

The following machines are emulated through qemu-system-ppc:There are many reasons why PPC emulation on x86 is difficult, and why the resulting emulators have probably always been too embarrassingly slow for their creators to make and release a finished emulator. Note: Information below true for qemu-system-ppc builds as of 14-03-2019. This page is about qemu-system-ppc.

This is why I think the best way to get PPC support on regular commodity PCs is by not emulating the CPU at all. In any event, while a usable G3 emulation is very possible, a usable G4 emulation will be impossible for many years thanks to the nice 128-bit Altivec unit.This is a hard way to work, from what programmers trying to produce PPC emulations tell me. To even have a chance at being useful, you'd have to go the route of using a JIT compiler to dynamically translate PPC ops to x86 ops, and even then you're obviously paying a big speed penalty.

There are even a couple of whole-computer-on-a-PCI-card hardware firewalls available I don't know offhand if any are PPC, but that may be. These cards have been available for a long time in PCI form factors, though not yet used for PPC/Mac 'emulation' most are sold as 'processor upgrades' for older Macs, and some are sold on the high-end for PCI backplane machines, and some are add-in cards for extra processing power that come with plug-ins allowing Photoshop to use the extra processors and SDKs to develop support for other apps to use the extra horsepower. Then, emulate the rest of the hardware on a given PPC Mac using some 'glue' software.

So, it's entirely possible that such products are finished by one or more of the add-in PPC card companies, but they're too frightened of releasing them at the moment.Time will tell. This could be a lie to cover for the fact that he's still not done yet, or it could be the truth-any company releasing such a product, which could presumably let a PC run anything that would run on an old-model iMac, would surely incur the wrath of Apple Legal. He was supposed to show this creation at Macworld Tokyo, but claims that the company which contracted with him was not ready to show it.

Imagine the possibilities that an 800MHz G4 PPC processor card (or even a slower one) for PCs, maybe with a RAM slot or 2 on-card, with software to emulate the rest of the Mac, could bring to the PC. I kinda hope for the hardware sol,ution myself, since it would unlock a much faster Mac emulation, with the ability to upgrade the PPC CPU-and it would just be plain cool to have a real PPC machine running inside and accessible from my PC. And, I have no doubt that sooner or later someone, somewhere, regardless of Apple Legal's threats, will release an emulator-whether all-software or hardware-assisted-which will let me smoothly run OS 9 and let me run OS X as well as or a bit better than an older iMac could. I've come to love the open-source 68k Mac emulator Basilisk II for that. :-) Several other enthusiasts have also been working on PPC emulation, though nothing usable is yet evident.In any event, I still happily play my old 68k Mac games under OS 8 or System 7.5.5 on occasion. Jim Drew also claims that he's been working on a software-only PPC Mac emulation, but that it won't be released until the hardware assisted version is released due to contractual agreements with the hardware maker.

Given his typical timetable for falling behind, even if it's not finished yet, it should be finished for sure and on the market (if the hardware company lets it be) before the year is out.That said, there's no telling whether the iMac emulation will be complete. He always delivers what he promises years late and with big features which were advertised early on in the project lacking.In the case of his PPC emulation, it's over a year late already, and he announced around December that it would show at MacWorld Tokyo. :-)You're absolutely right that Jim Drew's reputation in the emulation community is crap. Apple would sh*t a brick, and may well sue, but hey-there'd be a lot of happy customers to finance the defense. :-) That's an enthusiast's wetdream.

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After that, once the core 'glue' emulation is done that can emulate the other Mac hardware and hand off instructions to the PPC add-in card, other PPC add-in boards could be supported, and Darwin could be hacked where necessary to allow OS X to work with any shortcusts that might need to be taken, much as it is hacked now to get OS X working on unsupported Macs with upgrade cards.It's very doable when approached that way unfortunately, no one but Drew seems to have been interested in that path. There are so many high-quality PPC add-in cards out there now, that people really interested in running PPC code on their machines should pick one that's available in decent quantities and start coding the emulation support for it. Fusion was, for example, the best 68k Mac emulator by far when it first came out, and then for some time afterwards, although Basilisk II slowly but surely beat the crap out of both Fusion and its competitor SoftMac.At any rate, I think hadware-assisted is the way to rally go for PPC Mac 'emulation' on the PC. But he does *eventually* deliver products that offer good Mac emulation. And in fact, most of the emulation scene hates him right now for letting everyone believe up until the last minute that his PPC emulator would be demoed at Macworld Tokyo.

I'd be willing to pay in the $500 range if it supports OS X, and the $350 range if it doesn't. You do, however, contribute to it by allowing the impression that things will happen at a certain time, and then only 'cancelling' them with very short notice.That said, I do look forward to seeing your hardware-assisted product, if it does ever debut. Basilisk II JIT is by far the best 68k emulator now, but as you point out, it took a long while to catch up and meanwhile no real work has been done to Fusion except for Mihocka's little 'tweaks.'I do understand the complexities you've been dealing with, and to some extent I agree that your reputation in some circles is unfair.

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