Canon pixma pro9000 software. The Basilisk II Mac emulator allows you to emulate a 68k Macintosh on a variety of platforms, including BeOS (PowerPC and x86), Unix with X11 (including Linux, Solaris 2.5, FreeBSD and IRIX), AmigaOS 3.x, and Windows. This means it needs an x86 processor but it is capable of achiving near native speeds. For those who use older PowerPC based Macs, there is a version of Darwine that uses the GPL QEMU, an emulator. Install eclipse on mac os sierra for javascript development. Due to the use of an emulator, the PPC version will run programs at about 10-20% of your processors speed (and QEMU is a relitivly fast emulator).

I believe this kind of emulation is (really) far from perfect. Well, I still have to smile after I've 'seen' people asking for advanced features like implementing altivec 2 support. Currently, I am creating a HD image of my system, but I from several reports I gathered the performance is as worse as trying to run OSX on a 68K system (currently no harm is done to our favourite enterprise with the fruit shaped logo). But it is still a big step forward, months ago PPC emulators were considered as impossible. Personally I am left in the dark of its usefullness. I mean, OSX is all about style, useability or if you get one of the pro machines, its all about high performance applications, which require high processing power.

Maybe we shouldn't see this developement in such a negative light. Maybe some PC users get a (small) taste of Mac OSX and get curious how it will perform on the real machine. (Even if it is a small percent. Not everyone is downloading PPC emulation software of source forge, and how they acquired the OSX CDs then is also questionable) There is no much harm done, real hardware > emulation. Years have passed since the introduction of VPC and it is still performing slow on current machines.

And thats a commercial product. Well ifrit, i DO see the benefits of PPC emulation on x86. Ever since i 'switched' (and even before that), i prefer using a macintosh instead of a PC. Now most places i go to donot have macs, like my college totally runs PCs.

Now I create projects (such as C language programs for my CS course) on my mac, so I would like to take my 'copy' of PPC with me to college on a DVD so that i wouldnt have to modify the code on location. Plus it'd be kinda cool you know That is 'if' they manage to improve PearPC further. The second release already seems a lot better at performance.

All in all, I'd like to see this product evolve. You seem never to have heard of Open Firmware or New World Macintoshes. The Macintosh Toolbox ROM is required only to Old Word Macs, both 68k and PPC. The functions served by the firmware Toolbox ROM in Old World Macs are served by the ROM file in the MacOS 8/9/Classic System Folder in New World Macs. The ROM file is installed with the rest of 8/9/Classic. MacOS X 10.x requires neither a firmware ROM nor a ROM file. It is a violation of the MacOS X end user license to run the OS on non-Apple hardware.

If the user is so inclined to break the law, there are few if any technical impediments to doing so. You seem never to have heard of Open Firmware or New World Macintoshes.