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Squareball

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Mar 16, 2004
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On my x86 box I can run VMWare inside Linux or Windows to boot a virtual PC and install another OS. On the Mac I can run Virtual PC but it emulates a PC. Is there any software on the mac that doesn't emulate x86 but gives me a ppc virtual machine?
 
Squareball said:
On my x86 box I can run VMWare inside Linux or Windows to boot a virtual PC and install another OS. On the Mac I can run Virtual PC but it emulates a PC. Is there any software on the mac that doesn't emulate x86 but gives me a ppc virtual machine?
What in God's name are you trying to do? Did you expect VPC to emulate something other than a x86-based personal computer? Well, it can't but it is not supposed to. Do you believe that VPC can only emulate a Windows-based computer? FWIW, you can run just about any x86-based OS on VPC. As for other emulators, there are many available for the PPC-based Mac. There are two that emulate 68000-based Macs, and many others including the Bochs x86 emulator, several Apple ][ emulators, an HP 48 emulator, numerous game consoles, a DEC PDP-8 emulator, and so many more. Some have been ported to MacOS X 10.x, some are stuck in Classic.
 
Whoa Mr. Me, calm down there. I guess there are many things you could do with a PPC processor. I know there are emulators out there that will do what you want, but I can't think of the names of them right now. Try searching sourceforge, they'll have some of teh stuff you want.

BEN
 
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