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OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down

Posted by timothy on from the top-this-if-you-have-the-ram dept.

HomeBrewR writes: "Behold the power of MacOS X... Windows XP? Who cares! You guys arent going to believe what I was able to do in one bored day at work. http://www.mystaticip.com/homebrew shows my effort. I took OS X 10.1, installed fink with rootless Xfree86 with IceWM running BasiliskII [running MacOS 7.6]. OS X is also running ircle and VPC test drive running Windows XP. Simply amazing. The speed on this iBook 466SE of all the apps left much to be desired. This was a feasibility test. The speed of either one of the emulators running by themselves was decent if you turned off all the eye candy in Windows XP. I'm REALLY interested in getting BasiliskII up and running to be able to play all those games that OS 8 broke...stuff like Ancient Art of War and Vette. Check it out and have fun duplicating the effort HomeBrewR" The question I'm sure you're asking now is Why stop there?

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  1. Mirror by helixblue · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.webcache.org/a/2001/10/27/www.mystatici p.com/homebrew/index.html

    Hopefully it can handle it. :) I can definitely say I love MacOS X, and without a doubt -- you can run more apps from MacOS X than any other OS, especially if you throw in Virtual PC.

    I myself run WinXP in VirtualPC.. but I've been struggling to figure out why I bought VirtualPC other than to try XP? Is there really any Windows app I need?

    Oh.. ya, Civ3 is being released for Windows first.. that's why I need it!

  2. Heres the Pic on a much beefier machine by jgaynor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Picture Mirrored on a good server

    It looks pretty cool - cant think of what use this would be though. This guys website has no text about it at all. It goes something like:

    Dayam I love Mac OSX - look what I did.

    No lie thats all it says.

  3. Useful Link by moosesocks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Emaculation.com Is one of the most popular mac-emulation sites on the net and has useful information on setting up Mac emulators (currently, there is no ppc software-based mac emulator :-( )

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    -- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
  4. Emulate my brain! by Bongo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well hey, I beowulfed some neuronal organisms to form a neural cord, on top of which I then booted a reptilian brain stem. Then we emulated a limbic system, and added a running neocortex. Lastly, we mounted a full complex neocortex image!
    Now it can eat, kill, fu*k, feel happy and sad, do basic math and wonder about the meaning of life.
    Next we're trying to see if we've got enough spare cycles to initialise some basic psychic/saintly procedures...
    Mind you, performance is terrible. Aggressive funcions are very quick, but it seems permanently stuck in a loop in some lower subroutine concerning sex, while taking forever to compute simple empathy matrices.
    We're seriously considering a complete cold reboot, but then it did once turn water into wine. Maybe we should just leave it running, what do you think?