So does this mean that you can run Classic on an Intel iMac? Is that
what I'm understanding here? Are you kidding?
On Mar 9, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I'll take a moment of mad doctor exhultation: I succeeded in getting
OS X 10.4 running on my new 27" iMac!
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:-)
I got PearPC running in a Windows 7 Virtualbox VM.
I used this package:
<http://www.pearpc.net/pearpc_net_package.php>
Some gotchas:
If you have mouse integration turned on in VirtualBox, the mouse in
PearPC flat out won't work; you have to turn it off.
The G4 processor option worked during the install, but PearPC would
crash every time trying to boot from the installed system. Changing
that to a G3 emulation fixed it.
The initial OS X install dialog, where you choose the language, for
some reason did not display the icon to continue; hitting enter made
it work.
Networking does not work currently, but that's because networking
needs tun/tap virtual network interface system installed.
<http://openvpn.se/development.html>
I'll have to play with it a bit.
It appears you cannot compile PearPC under Xcode because it doesn't
like the assembler bits; you can compile it, but the just-in-time
compiler port of PearPC, responsible for much of it's speed, has to
be excluded. This makes the emulated system exceedingly slow.
As it is, it feels like about a 450-500 mhz smurf to me right now;
given that this is a 2.93 Ghz quad-core i7 with 8 gigs of RAM, that
should give you an idea how it might work on your system.
I'm now going to investigate if I might not have a more efficient
host for the PearPC, looking for a lighter-weight Linux host in
VirtualBox and see if I can't get the performance up a wee bit.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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