The best test of how well an PPC emulator works is to see whether it can successfully run Virtual PC, which uses a lot of special (or so their marketing claims) G3 and G4 features.ĭarwin is an interesting 's the base OS X system and there's a x86 port. Not exactly compatible, are they? But if you're really ambitious and want to start one, you should look for the basic PowerPC specs on IBM's site, and search for a G4-specific instruction reference. Take the G4 for instance:Ģ24 RISC instructions, with an additional 162 SIMD instructions.ģ6-bit physical addresses. No, there are no PowerPC emulators because they are just SO hard to emulate. Macintosh refers to the original 1984 Macintosh, running on (I believe) a 6800. Let's be like a compiler for a few seconds. (which is free, but requires a Mac OS ROM image) or check ARDI's commercial Executor for Linux. Split these two posts above from this thread.įor Macintosh emulators in Linux simply Code:
I also saw some other PowerPC emulator programs but nothing that claimed to be able to boot an operating system. it would probably take years of development to even get it to boot on that. However, it's not intended to be used for running MacOS AFAICS. I looked for 'powerpc emulator' on Google and found.
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