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Mountain Lion and Windows for PPC
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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
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?
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...
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,
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,
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.
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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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 VPC was originally made by Connectix and they were doing this back during OS9 days before OSX.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.
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?
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.
My dad does this stuff its his hobby not the osx stuff but emulating windows 7 on q.
I'm sure that someone could make it somehow to run Mountain Lion on my Clamshell
...and where's the link?
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.)
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.)