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Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86
jediboytj writes "According to the MacWorld Article, Cherry OS, does what Virtual PC does for Macs, only the opposite. PC Users are now able to run Mac OSX at G4 Speeds (Company claims 80% of the speed of your PC). It also includes full hardware support: hard drive, CPU, RAM, FireWire, USB, PCI, PCMCIA bus, Ethernet networking and modem. The software is being distributed through electronic download at $49.99 USD..." Note: it does not come with a copy of any Apple OS. Anyone in Windowsland tried it to provide a thumbs up (or down)?
If anyone has popped the cherry on CherryOS yet?
Wow, there is a recipe for a slashdotting-- let people run OS X on the cheapest ahrdware they can find...
They saw us coming around the corner!
Server Error in '/' Application.
Just a dot away from a PERFECT error message.
Now I can have my life-long dream of running a Laserwriter using appletalk!
Running MacOS using CherryOS on Windows using VMWare on FreeBSD using Linux binary compatibility.
does it also do the "diiiiiiing" when you start up? should not, as the usual PC has no built-in speaker. that will take away a big chunk from the experience....
Try this instead.
Free XBox, PS2
What a perversion.... I'm going back to getting my Cuisenart to run Debian. - B
It's running DotNet. [troll]It will probably be down for the rest of the day.[/troll]
Engineering and the Ultimate
I'll finally be able to play all those games I can't get for the PC platform.
We all get along together like tornadoes and trailer parks.
No. you got it all wrong. It is actually IIS running on a virtual PC inside Cherry OS inside a normal PC.
Python script to convert photos into "artsy" portraits: http://p2pbridge.sf.net/pyPortrait/
I tried it today... it crashed when I clicked the right mouse button.
I have some Windows software I need reviewed. What would be the best place to ask? Oh, I know... Slashdot! Of course!
This does work. I'm posting this right now from OSX, running in a window in XP. Ofcourse, XP is actually a VMWare window which I'm seeing through a web-citrix ica client on my sun box. isn't technology great?):
The Digital Couture Collection
LOL, got maybe a license for 5 connections :)
Or cherries to pears?
SYS 49152
You can install all your favorite mac applications on your PC like iLife, iTunes and Photoshop ... to name just a few.
WoW!!! I can finally run iTunes and Photoshop on my PC!!!
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Yes, the process of emulating a PowerPC on an Intel x86 chip takes up 80 percent of your host CPU -- leaving 20 percent for user applications. What's so hard to understand about that?
Breakfast served all day!
...but... i have a Mac.. how do I do ? I cant see any Mac/PPC versions out there. Bugger!
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
The URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
The software is being distributed through electronic download at $49.99 USD...
Oh good. I'm growing really tired of mechanical downloads...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Running MacOS using CherryOS on Windows using VMWare on FreeBSD using Linux binary compatibility.
On an X-Box.
Not if one out of your five computers already runs it. Yay permissive Apple licensing! :D
Yay permissive Apple licensing not allowing the running of MacOS X on a non-Apple-badged computer!
Although...
Is this why I got a bunch of Apple stickers with my own iBook?
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
hmm... crap. Maybe "Yay that Mac OS doesn't have product activation so they won't really be able to tell and it's not as if I'm sharing it with the entire world anyway" instead?
Of course, I wouldn't even need real Mac OS on my PCs if stuff like iTunes and Safari would run on x86 with GNUStep and X11 -- oh well : (
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
"We have no uptime data for www.cherryos.com at present, and cannot plot a graph. "
Yeah, I downloaded that - and it brought me nothing but spyware! DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!
In other news, geek grows tired of carrying around lotion and a towel, invents woman.
Karma: Excer..ex...excellahhh...realll good (mostly affected by drinking not done in moderation)
What's a right mouse button?
Attention: The President/CEO
Dear Sir,
Confidential Business Proposal
Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Software And Emulators, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $50 (fifty United States dollars) into our accounts in exchange for a Mac OS X emulator that runs on your MS Windows PC. Great cost has gone into the research of this software and it must be transferred as soon as possible out of the country.
While there is no demostration copy available for testing I can assure you that you will be able to run Mac OS X at full speed on any computer with a Pentium III or faster. Screenshots will soon follow after we receive your check (complete with routing numbers).
Thank You And God Speed,
Howgul Abul Arhu
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
Company claims 80% of the speed of your PC
Banu
What? I've been told not to compare Apple and Orange many times. But now people are comparing Cherries with Pears!
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ (PearPC) runs at around 20% speed, which leads me to believe that not only did the CherryOS people rip off the PearPC project, but they also inverted their ratio.
Apple distributes a free Mac/PPC emulator with all versions of their OS.
I'll keep that in mind the next time I buy a kickass stereo system sold off the back of a pickup truck at 4 AM.
... has popped its cherry?
*places pinky finger to corner of mouth like Dr. Evil*
- Danny
You presume that the emulator is running on a real PC, rather than one itself emulated on, say, Virtual PC for Mac.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
2. Inordinate amount of time spent visiting rumor sites to find out when emulation will be sped up.
3. Funny, this beige computer case clashes with the drapes; I never noticed that before...
I like firefox on Linux (and XP), but I hate the mac version. Mostly because I can't middle-click links to open them in a new tab! Safari lets me do this. (Oh the irony, the vendor that ships with a one-button mouse has better multi-button support than a program originally designed to run on X11, a platform that has had three-button mice forever!)
I also like PithHelmet better than AdBlock.
Safari is my choice browser on OSX because it blends in with the rest of my apps. It looks the same as iTunes and iCal and iEverythingElse (Mail.app seems to stick out like a sore thumb, though.)
Also, firefox has this weird pseudo-window that only shows itself when Exposé is activated. What is with that...
My other car is first.
Bleeding TYPICAL - something like this comes out and you can bet it will never get ported to the Mac.
I wan't to run it on my PowerBook but I can't because they will only support Windows and maybe Linux.
I demand to be able to run OSX on my Ma... oh wait.
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