On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, michael hast wrote:
> Robert Snyder wrote:
>
> > It all depends on what you are looking to emulate on the ppc platform
> >
> > OSX/other nix based OSes then you cant beat PearPC which does run
> > faster than my 400mhz G3 B/W system which runs OSX 10.4 just fine.
> > There have been improvements too it and my copy of pear pc with all
> > the tweaks and such boots with in 2-3 minutes a little slower than my
> > 400mhz the biggest problem is video draw rates. There is a on going
> > discussion in how you could treat the OSX desktop as a 3d enviroment
> > and pass opengl calls to the host system for faster preformance.
> >
> > On 11/28/05, *Eben King* <eben1@tampabay.rr.com
> > <mailto:eben1@tampabay.rr.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, michael hast wrote:
> >
> > > Hey, guys!
> > >
> > > Jim got me started on a thought here. Do any of you have any
> > > experience with Power PC emulation on x86? My recent
> > > experimentation with Qemu has got me thinking about that as well,
> > > it's not all Jim's fault.
> >
> > PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ works, but it's
> > glacial. I'm talking, half an hour to boot on a 2GHz x86.
> >
> Well, those are a couple of completely different reviews of the same
> app! Controversy means it's probably worth looking at! :-)
Yeah, maybe it's improved since I tried, or maybe my installation was
hosed, or maybe OS X 10.2 doesn't get along with PearPC.
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