Mountain Lion and Windows for PPC

rabidz7 · Jan 15, 2013, 09:10 AM

I just found this app that should be able to run mountain lion and intel only apps on PowerPC.
I am not 100% sure if this will work, but I am going to try it within a few days.

justperry · Jan 15, 2013, 09:12 AM

Which App?????

ybz90 · Jan 15, 2013, 09:18 AM

This sounds too good to be true unfortunately. :/ It'd have to be some kind of emulation, and would likely have poor performance.

But maybe I just have no imagination.

bwt89 · Jan 15, 2013, 10:11 AM

That would be amazing !

AdrianK · Jan 15, 2013, 10:28 AM

Judging from past events, I just know this is going to be good. My guess would be Darwine.

Goftrey · Jan 15, 2013, 10:48 AM

Not going to happen.

Lil Chillbil · Jan 15, 2013, 11:50 AM

I don't even want to run mountain lion on intel machines what makes you think I would want to run it on my powerpc machines

eyoungren · Jan 15, 2013, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by justperry

Which App?????

Yeah, I'm wondering too.

Come in, drop something like that, no link, no mention of the app name. What are we all supposed to think?

ppcfanforever1 · Jan 15, 2013, 12:10 PM

This is a joke or a clueless guy no doubt.

666sheep · Jan 15, 2013, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

I don't even want to run mountain lion on intel machines what makes you think I would want to run it on my powerpc machines

So this thread isn't for you

I'd love to run Mountain Lion and Silverlight on my Clamshell

I'm holding my breath to hear what's the miraculous app...

GermanyChris · Jan 15, 2013, 12:28 PM

uhh huh..

thorns · Jan 15, 2013, 12:30 PM

Nothing to see here...

cocacolakid · Jan 15, 2013, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

This is a joke or a clueless guy no doubt.

We have a winner!

seveej · Jan 15, 2013, 02:01 PM

I once had this program (we did not call them apps back then), which let me run Windows 98 (and more importantly: all my favorite games) on my Powermac G3. compared to the 486 box I had at that time, the virtualized windows worked really nice and smooth.

But like some others here: I'd rather run leopard (snow or regular) on my i7 MBP than Mountain Lion (even Lion's a pain).

RGDS,

rjcalifornia · Jan 15, 2013, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabidz7

I just found this app that should be able to run mountain lion and intel only apps on PowerPC.
I am not 100% sure if this will work, but I am going to try it within a few days.

Also, it will bring back 'Chuck', CSI Miami, Dexter's Lab, Megas XLR, Samurai Jack and Farscape back on TV

No, seriously, this can't be done. Mountain Lion will never never never run on a PowerPC mac without emulation.

rabidz7 · Jan 15, 2013, 02:48 PM

It is an emulator.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyoungren

Yeah, I'm wondering too.

Come in, drop something like that, no link, no mention of the app name. What are we all supposed to think?

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rjcalifornia

Also, it will bring back 'Chuck', CSI Miami, Dexter's Lab, Megas XLR, Samurai Jack and Farscape back on TV

No, seriously, this can't be done. Mountain Lion will never never never run on a PowerPC mac without emulation.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

This is a joke or a clueless guy no doubt.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

eyoungren · Jan 15, 2013, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabidz7

It is an emulator.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

OK. So thanks for finally naming the app. But you do realize that the Q-emulator has been around for a few years right?

And then there is VirtualPC 7 made by Microsoft. That's been around a few years. VPC was originally made by Connectix and they were doing this back during OS9 days before OSX.

Right now I'm running Win7 Ultimate on my 1Ghz PowerBook G4 using VPC7.

Thanks again though.

rabidz7 · Jan 15, 2013, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyoungren

OK. So thanks for finally naming the app. But you do realize that the Q-emulator has been around for a few years right?

And then there is VirtualPC 7 made by Microsoft. That's been around a few years. VPC was originally made by Connectix and they were doing this back during OS9 days before OSX.

Right now I'm running Win7 Ultimate on my 1Ghz PowerBook G4 using VPC7.

Thanks again though.

But can it run mac osx?

eyoungren · Jan 15, 2013, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabidz7

But can it run mac osx?

I would think so. You are essentially talking about a Hackintosh, but just using an emulator.

That's just going to be so glacially slow and fraught with problems that I've never let it get past the potentiality stage. It's possible, just not something I want to undertake.

Unless you have a link to someone who's managed to do this easily?

Intell · Jan 15, 2013, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabidz7

But can it run mac osx?

No it can't. Q doesn't provide the proper things for a Mac OS X system. If it did, it would run Intell 10.4.X extremely slowly and 10.8.X would take days too boot.

ppcfanforever1 · Jan 15, 2013, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyoungren

I would think so. You are essentially talking about a Hackintosh, but just using an emulator.

That's just going to be so glacially slow and fraught with problems that I've never let it get past the potentiality stage. It's possible, just not something I want to undertake.

Unless you have a link to someone who's managed to do this easily?

My dad does this stuff its his hobby not the osx stuff but emulating windows 7 on q.

666sheep · Jan 15, 2013, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Intell

No it can't. Q doesn't provide the proper things for a Mac OS X system. If it did, it would run Intell 10.4.X extremely slowly and 10.8.X would take days too boot.

I'm sure that someone could make it somehow to run Mountain Lion on my Clamshell

...and where's the link?

rjcalifornia · Jan 15, 2013, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabidz7

It is an emulator.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20830/q-emulator

Qemulator? Emulation? yeah...

MisterKeeks · 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

This is a joke or a clueless guy no doubt.

.

Wildy · Jan 15, 2013, 04:21 PM

Q is just a graphical frontend for QEMU - a pretty well-known piece of software in virtualization/emulation circles. People have reported that VirtualPC runs faster than QEMU - so use that if your aim is to run Windows.

With regards to Moutain Lion running on it, yes it is [probably] possible, but it is going to be ridiculously slow. I have found this article on getting Leopard running under QEMU, essentially it is a fancy Hackintosh install (custom kexts are needed). The difference is that this guy is using QEMU fort virtualization, we must use QEMU for emulation - this might break a few things.

Perhaps if I get some spare time I might give it a go and do a write-up - but I see no benefit over emulating Windows XP on VPC (obviously very dependant on what you need to do - but if you need ML for a newer Mac app, thus you will be using it interactively - forget it.)

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rabidz7 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Ohio	Mountain Lion and Windows for PPC I just found this app that should be able to run mountain lion and intel only apps on PowerPC. I am not 100% sure if this will work, but I am going to try it within a few days. __________________ I appologize to all offended by my lieing about my Power Mac G5's details. I never had a GTX 680 or 7970 (in the Power Mac), I never emulated OS X 10.8 (successfully).
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seveej macrumors 6502 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Helsinki, Finland	I once had this program (we did not call them apps back then), which let me run Windows 98 (and more importantly: all my favorite games) on my Powermac G3. compared to the 486 box I had at that time, the virtualized windows worked really nice and smooth. But like some others here: I'd rather run leopard (snow or regular) on my i7 MBP than Mountain Lion (even Lion's a pain). RGDS, __________________ MP 3,1 Octo MBP 13" 2,66 C2D, 8GB, 160SSD MDD, 1Ghz DP, 2GB, 4.25 TB (Leopard Server)
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Wildy macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2011	Q is just a graphical frontend for QEMU - a pretty well-known piece of software in virtualization/emulation circles. People have reported that VirtualPC runs faster than QEMU - so use that if your aim is to run Windows. With regards to Moutain Lion running on it, yes it is [probably] possible, but it is going to be ridiculously slow. I have found this article on getting Leopard running under QEMU, essentially it is a fancy Hackintosh install (custom kexts are needed). The difference is that this guy is using QEMU fort virtualization, we must use QEMU for emulation - this might break a few things. Perhaps if I get some spare time I might give it a go and do a write-up - but I see no benefit over emulating Windows XP on VPC (obviously very dependant on what you need to do - but if you need ML for a newer Mac app, thus you will be using it interactively - forget it.)
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