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PowerPC Architecture Emulator Unleashed

Posted by timothy on from the keep-handy-the-shredded-newspaper dept.

Sebastian Biallas writes "We have finally released version 0.1 of our PowerPC architecture emulator: PearPC. The emulator itself is (prepared to be) architecture independent but only tested on x86s (here you go porters...). It also features a must faster just-in-time compilation unit for x86 hosts. This means that you can now run your favourite PowerPC-OS on x86: Mandrake Linux (9.1), Darwin (6 + 7) and Mac OS X (10.3)! And the best things is: it's GPL'd. But be warned: it's experimental.."

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  1. Re:I call total and complete bullshit on OSX... by gmaestro · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the website this guy is not claiming to have a working OSX environment. He clearly states the the emulated PPC rus 500 times slower than the host. This is just a cool program in very early beta. Besides, he has screenshots of the initial stages of and OSX install, which is pretty nice for version 0.1.

  2. screenshots by hassr · · Score: 5, Informative
    the project page has screen shots of os-x installing.
    • http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
  3. QEmu? by pkhuong · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does anyone know how it compares to QEmu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/)?

    "QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed. "

    "News
    (May 8, 2004) QEMU version 0.5.5 is out. (Changelog). Much improved Windows 98 support. VGA support in PowerPC PREP target.

    (Apr 26, 2004) QEMU version 0.5.4 is out. (Changelog). This is the first version which is able to install and run Windows XP (experimental). This is also the first version which is able to boot a PowerPC PREP Linux kernel on a PC."

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