VPC alternative... Finally!

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ooagentbender

macrumors member

Original poster

• Aug 30, 2003

• #1

http://www.openosx.com/wintel/

This is simple awesome because this could help us get rid of vpc and MS.

😀

PS its dual proccessor aware.

 

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ima_pseudonym

macrumors member

• Aug 30, 2003

• #2

Its just bochs with a gui wrapper.
Bochs is...


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MacsRgr8

macrumors G3

• Aug 30, 2003

• #3

Wintel has been in "production" quite a long time now... so long, I forgot it still was alive!
Looking at the screenshots, it is clear that they are old: Notice the QuickTime 5 icon in the dock >>> It is OS X 10.1
The new screenshots imply Jagwire, and they state it is 10.2 compatible.
Is it just another version of MacBochs ???

Anybody tried it?

 

MacsRgr8

macrumors G3

• Aug 30, 2003

• #4

Originally posted by ima_pseudonym


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😉 'nuff said. Tnx.

 

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BrandonRP0123

macrumors regular

• Aug 30, 2003

• #5

Re: VPC alternative... Finally!

Originally posted by ooagentbender
http://www.openosx.com/wintel/

This is simple awesome because this could help us get rid of vpc and MS.

😀

PS its dual proccessor aware.

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That does look pretty sweet - and since it's only $25 for the download of the emulator, I think I might get it.

 

vollspacken

macrumors 65816

• Aug 30, 2003

• #6

25 minutes ago I just got me the IMO best alternative to VPC, on eBay:
- a nice and small IBM Thinkpad 240x (PIII 500Mhz) that I will use for all the stuff I used VPC6 on my tiBook for.

for the same money of VPC6 plus a windows license I now have one of the smallest usable computers avalible (hehe, for those who are interested in vintage powerbooks, the 240 series actually is more or less the same computer as the Powerbook 2400c which also was designed by IBM...)
it does not matter that the machine lacks an internal CD-rom since I will use it in an network environment anyways...

and maybe it will get a PB 2400c as a companion someday...

my first PeeCee... 😱

vSpacken

 

FattyMembrane

macrumors 6502a

• Aug 30, 2003

• #7

Re: Re: VPC alternative... Finally!

Originally posted by BrandonRP0123
That does look pretty sweet - and since it's only $25 for the download of the emulator, I think I might get it.

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bochs is freeware. you can download it from http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ as either an x11 application or a carbon app. i'm not quite sure how openosx stays in business selling freeware, but they're still around.

 

zapp

macrumors regular

• Aug 30, 2003

• #8

Made me do a double take too

I was surfing the web a couple days ago, and ran into the same thing. Started looking around and spotted that it was just bochs. I tried bochs with the default disc with linux on it. it took forever booting. then the command line was even slow. windows would break it for sure. Hopefully these guys http://www.lismoresoft.com/ publish a OSX compatible version of there emulator. Time will tell: