From the PearPC site: “The most important change of this release is certainly that network now also works with Windows as host. Since we now have conditional redraw code, you can take a smaller redraw interval without dramatic speed decrease. With this release, you can switch the screen resolution (i.e. the size of the window) at runtime via the video.x driver. Note that there are some small config file changes, so please update your config file from the shipped ppccfg.example.”
PearPC 0.2.0 released
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Link is to “link: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/“
And for those that don’t know PearPC is a PPC emulator that can be used to run PPC Linux er. well OSX (but slowly) on x86 hardware.
It’s amazing how quick these guys are implementing features. This has got to be one of the most active development projects I’ve seen in a long time. At this rate they’ll have a stable emulator in no time.
I have been using PearPC for a week now and it works really well, considering it has only been public for about a month. There are several sites with tons of info on it, particularly http://www.emaculation.com/ (my favorite). You can check there for links to nightly CVS builds if you want something a little more current. Version 0.2.0 is quite usable though. YMMV though, as some people have reported problems with certain hardware.
playing with MacOSX (on PearPC) as well as various earlier versions on vMac, BasiliskII, etc.
Now that would be a job and a half – writing some minor utility and comparing compilations on all the various Macintosh OSes.
Has anyone checked to see if this runs the classic os? Like version 9.2?
You would need a Mac ROM image for that.
Are there any benchmarks available to test how fast PearPC is?
You could give ‘Xbench’ a go – http://xbench.com/
If someone does do this could they post the results up on the Xbench site. Might take a while to run the tests though!
Great job guys!
I’m dreaming about this several years and downloading Panther’s ISOs right now…
No.
There’s some unimplemented part of the boot code that prevents the old Mac OS from booting, and 10.0 as well. PearPC will run OS X 10.1 and up only – or Darwin, Linux, etc.
If you are running Linux as a host you could try SheepShaver, which runs 8.6 at least. It might run 9.2 (I haven’t checked) but it definitely won’t run OS X (no MMU support).
ExodusMachine: You would need a Mac ROM image for that.
Um, no. Mac OS 9 includes a ROM on the install disk (New World ROM). Doesn’t help. PearPC doesn’t have the code to load a ROM even if you had one, old-world or new.
Try the OS X Classic subsystem – the only versions of the Mac OS that run in classic include the new world ROM, and it’s not the boot code that loads it. It might work…
If you want to support the Mac buy Panther – I did, its the only piece of software I’ve ever bought despite 4 years on Windows and having used every version released in that time
Besides which I suspect you’ll find you need a Mac to burn a Mas OSX ISO anyway..
By all means steal microsoft code – I do – but have a bit of respect for a genuinely superior platform or it’ll disappear eventually.
Hmmm… I will be glad to buy Mac and Panther, but… only when I become a little richer than now. I’m forced to pirate – I don’t have enough funds to buy all what i like
Give me a job and pay me good salary – I’ll buy anything!Or help me find job outside my country!
MacOSX iso are just plain iso, no problem making and burning on my linux box using standard tools dd & cdrecord
No, you’re not “forced” to pirate. You’re playing with PearOS and Panther for fun, so you actually don’t have to do anything. If you don’t do it, it will have no affect on your life whatsoever.
It appears that someone has just posted a benchmark on xbench.com :
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=69599
version pre 0.3, it seems
“Yes, it’s only OK to steal from large companies.”
I don’t know why everyone thinks Apple is such a small, innocent company. PearPC is pretty neat, though. Could be useful for endian testing during ports, at the very least.
IMHO, the most interesting emulator news lately has been the new Dreamcast emulator. No, it’s not at all the same as a PPC one, but it’s still pretty damn cool nonetheless.
http://chanka.emulatronia.com/FrameSetDC_DC.htm
It plays some commercial games, and it has been released to the public. Not bad! It’s the first one I’ve ever considered donating to
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-Erwos
By all means steal microsoft code – I do – but have a bit of respect for a genuinely superior platform or it’ll disappear eventually.
Don’t pirate Microsoft software! Just don’t use it!
Microsoft are gainig parts of their market domination through pirated software. Of course they like even more if you pay for all your software (and they can likely sue you if you don’t), but they still consider it better if you pirate their products opposed to not using them at all. Because if everyone’s using it (and pirates will more likely get a new version when it is released, because they don’t think about paying), they can still change their proprietary formats with every new release and force everyone to upgrade (and lock out non-microsoft products).
Imagine everyone who has a pirated copy of Microsoft office (which in most western countries are more than 20% of computer users, in some third world countried even more than 90%) replaced it with OpenOffice. 90% of these people would be perfectly happy with OpenOffice, and Microsoft would have to face that and introduce real XML-compliant formats, really bug-free software, and some real innovation and new features to sell the next version of their product and not lose (paying) customers. So everyone (even Microsoft, as they would make better software) was helped with that.
Generally, i’m not very strict regarding legality aspects (i.e. i’m using BeOS Dano because it supports my USB (R5 has no OHCI support) and i’m not hurting anyone by using it), but when it comes to Microsoft Products, don’t use them. Don’t pirate them. Help achieving some real innovation. Help to improve Free Software.
Well, testing the 0.2 release right now. Seems to work just a tiny bit faster than the 0.1.x release.
Anyway, I wanted to let everyone know that PearPC just made it’s way into the biggest and oldest Dutch PC Magazine! Congratulations, because this will attract a lot of attention towards the project. Great!
A benchmark can not be ran effectively in PearPC considering the clock is broken and the timing is not accurate. The project’s website even says do not rely on benchmarks made inside the client
Well it is posible to benchmark with 0.3pre (If you can find it – I have) because it has a G4 Processor @ 900MHz.