PPC Emulator?!

andrewy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 602

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/10/011255&mode=thread&tid=107&tid=162&tid=185&tid=187&tid=99
What do you guys think?
Has anyone tried it? Does it really work with OS X?

wdreinhart · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 2:43 am Post subject:

I'll give it a try and report back, I just happpen to have a set of OSX 10.2 install CDs on my desk.

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Yes, it can boot OSX from the install CD. This is neat!

It's all sorts of the slow, though...

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I'm gonna have to check this out. Will it be in portage?
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shm · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 3:40 am Post subject:

wow, quite interesting.

Most impressive was that he himself does not even have any PPC hardware.

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Gandalf the White · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:43 am Post subject:

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

As I'm sure you can tell, this is what I've been waiting for! Can't wait, get back from school, download this, install osx, ahhhhhh.

stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

I was finally able to get something to boot. I downloaded the jitc version for windows and booted a Gentoo 1.4 iso with it (the 2004 and 2004.1 versions crash shortly after boot).

The speed seemed decent, much better than I expected.
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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

Here's a screen shot with it running the 1.4 Universal PPC LiveCD with an OpenSSL speed test so you can get an idea of the general performance. This test was run on a 500Mhz Pentium3 under Windows XP.

http://home.comcast.net/~stonent/pearpc.PNG

Here's another screenshot with a listing of the emulated PCI devices and the cpuinfo

http://home.comcast.net/~stonent/pearpc2.png
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mcduke · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject:

Still can't believe that it works, but it does:

http://mcduke.typepad.com/mymind/2004/05/the_world_turne.html

Crazy hack, that. What a strange feeling to have Mac OS X running (okay.. crawling, but that's beside the point) on x86. Weird.

stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

I did some more benchmarking on my 1ghz laptop under xp and gentoo and both times got the same exact score as the 500mhz system at work. :roll:

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Gandalf the White · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:

Could someone post their config please? I can't get it to see my hard disk image.

EDIT: got it work, nm

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

i'm getting this error

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Gandalf the White · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

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Gandalf the White · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Haven't gotten that error so I can't be of much help, I've got osx 10.3 installing as we speak, this is awesome.

Bague · Apprentice Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

/me goes to ask mac using friend if he can borrow his friends OSX Cds...

Gandalf the White · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject:

Just be warned, it took me about 4.5 hours to install 10.3.

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

It booted my Panther upgrade CD, but not my G5 software CD. Time to try and find some panther install cds.
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zojas · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:35 am Post subject:

can you run it as a user or does it have to be run as root?

can it access a scsi-emulation cdrom, or just ide, or either?

can the panther install cd create the partition table on the blank disk image or do you HAVE to get the darwin disk?

I just created the disk image with dd and when I get time I'll be popping in my panther cd.
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Gandalf the White · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:40 am Post subject:

Well, I created the partition setup using the disk manager in the installer, using the darwin cd did not work for me. So far as I know it can be ran as user, unfortunately I don't have access to a linux box atm and I'm running it in windows. I can confirm though, it does run panther, albeit very, very slowly.

stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

Gandalf, what does it think your hardware is? I mean when you run system profiler or about this mac?
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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

runnin as user and booting of an IDE cd. It worked fine (if slow) all the way up until choosing a volume where it complained that i was using an upgrade disk. Cool, imo. Anyone got an unused jag or panther cds they want to give me?

Note: you need to format the image using OSX disk util for setup to detect it.
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Gandalf the White · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:14 am Post subject: