May 19, 2004

OSX under Windows, mac classic under Flash

Posted by ryan at 01:04 PM in apple , computers . | 2 Comments

"OS News has an article by a user who successfully installed Mac OS X using the 0.1 version of PearPC, the PPC emulator for x86 machines. He said it took 5 hours to run the first install CD but he did get it up and running on an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ with 512MB of RAM. The article has several screenshots of the Mac OS X install and new user set up running on his machine."

"Two guys in Germany have worked to create a Macintosh System 7 simulation in Flash. You can watch the Happy Mac face as the system boots and it even has a working Control Pannel, After Dark screen saver, and games. Wired news has an article on the developers and the simulation can be viewed on-line."

[from apple.slashdot.org]

Comments

Did the article say anything about performance after installation? I can only imagine that since it's a real early version of an emulator that the perfromance has to be terrible.

Why hasn't someone smarter than me extracted the GUI code and thrown it onto BSD yet?

Posted by: polamex at May 19, 2004 3:02 PM

The website estimates the performace hit at about 40x slower.

Posted by: ryan at May 19, 2004 3:33 PM