Macintosh OS on a PC (Part 2)

[Bombardier]

After reading various forums and articles about this whole "PearPC" and running Mac OS on a x86 PC, I decided to give it a try for myself.

PearPC only emulates the PowerPC hardware layer. I supplied my own Mac OS.

Since I am a big fan of screenshots (as you can tell ;) ), I have taken a few from the installation process of Mac OS X 10.3 and will post them in this thread.

Here is the first one

[Bombardier]

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[Bombardier]

As for the memory and system resources the PearPC takes up, it will use as much as it can!

Right now it's only using 35 mb and like 97% of the processor CPU cycles. I am running a Intel Celeron 2.5 GHZ with 256 mb of RAM with Windows 2000 Professional.

Here is another system resources picture. The amount of memory this uses fluctuates.

[Bombardier]

Since the emulator is currently only emulating at something equivilant to 10MHZ, the installation takes a LOT of time.

Roughly 5+ hours per CD

There are code tweaks that will make it run faster eventually.

Edited May 14, 2004 by Bombardier

[Bombardier]

This is the last screen shot until either something significant happens or I eventually reach the desktop.