Author Topic: OS X on a W1ndows Machine (Read 6277 times)

W1nTry · « **on:** March 09, 2005, 09:19:58 AM »

For those that have used a mac at any point in their life for any extended period of time. They will know what it was great, faster than w1indows of its time, with lower hardware requirements (though I am sure the price made up for that difference). In recent times, @pple has been getting better and better with its OS (even though plaagued with hardware problems). Now to those that have used OS X, that is a dream OS come true, smooth, pretty, EASY TO USE, and recognises almost everything for u (no need to find driver online, pull hair out as in some ALL MS OSes). Now what would u say if I said that OS X would run on an X86 based machine? well it is a flavour of BSD and i've read that @pple already has had OS X running on X86 machines. However thats not a reality to the masses. Enter the OS X emulator which can be bought for 50US or downloaded for trial. THe product is called Cherry OS and u can run Mac OS X (after u download it from the @pple website). Here is a link to the site:
cherry OS
I will attempt to download it ( it could be quite large so it might be a prob for me) if anyone manages to get it, do tell.

Carigamers · « **on:** March 09, 2005, 09:19:58 AM »

rb · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2005, 09:23:25 PM »

There are other pieces of software that can do the same thing. I used to have one before my pc crashed. I can't even remember the name. I just remember running Linux while in Win XP.

disciple · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2005, 04:26:29 PM »

RB:- that program may be pearPC

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/about.html

which some people claim CherryOS is a rip of....

never used either, so i can't say

rudeboy96 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:42:44 PM »

it would be great if i got OS X on my PC. Windows XP jus so damn annoyin with all dem drivers. right now my usb ports don't work because of de same reason.

AIDS · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:53:10 PM »

pearPC was too buggy. I never could get it to work right but for earlier versions of mac OS there was an emu that worked great. I was even able to install of the original OS 8 CD and it supported virtual drives so that you could share files between the MAC and WIN OS. I'll dig up for it in my archives and give you all the name if you interested but I am curious about Cherry OS.

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:53:10 PM »

W1nTry · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2005, 04:15:21 PM »

Sure, sounds quite interesting

WarriorPoet · « **Reply #6 on:** September 24, 2005, 05:59:33 PM »

Found it an interesting topic and did some research

turns out that like other emulators it runs above the already running OS so performance will take a hit

as for claims that it is almost as fast as native hardware, I cannot see that possible unless you are running a lot of redundancy ie lots of RAM and a powerful CPU

if you look around online there also seems to be some debate about PearPC and Cherry OS being virtually the same source code repackaged. if you had problems with PearPC then you will have problems with Cherry OS

If it sounds too good to be true...

TinyGrasshopper · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2005, 01:57:49 PM »

Or you could just be illegal, google osx on x86, and google for osx image bitttorrent or something like that. Check this: http://hak5.org/episodes and download Episode 2

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2005, 10:18:22 PM »

anyone actually seen that osx code running on PC hardware?

hacked or otherwise?

I heard it's pretty fast. Faster than on Mac hardware.

W1nTry · « **Reply #9 on:** September 27, 2005, 11:06:39 AM »

Funny I heard quite the opposite... I heard its really slow on PC hardware....

TinyGrasshopper · « **Reply #10 on:** September 27, 2005, 03:48:52 PM »

I think it's actually blazing fast on PC Hardware, like boot in 10 seconds kinda fast. I think any reports of slowness are because of running on VMWare which by virtue of that make things slow. Of course Vista on the site claims to load at 2-3 seconds but we shall see.

W1nTry · « **Reply #11 on:** September 28, 2005, 01:59:33 PM »

Let me think about that carefully.... a beautiful OS built on UNIX, tried, tested and true... as opposed to 'new' OS supposedly built from the ground up, costing as much as putting a man on the moon cause they started over at some point in between, by a company who makes software with more holes in it than back of a CRT monitor (cooling) and I hear supporting DRM... hmm yeah... i'll take "W1nTry: OSX for $1000 Alex";"Alex: The answer is... no daily Trouble".

TinyGrasshopper · « **Reply #12 on:** September 28, 2005, 02:32:41 PM »

yep, I agree. of course i'm running Linux on my laptop so the merits are clear to me by now.

richjob · « **Reply #13 on:** September 28, 2005, 08:15:44 PM »

Quote from: [X]-Baego on September 26, 2005, 10:18:22 PM

anyone actually seen that osx code running on PC hardware?

hacked or otherwise?

I heard it's pretty fast. Faster than on Mac hardware.

Tariq brought a Dell notebook with it. Quite decent speed. If it runs slow, there's a file you need to delete, depending on the variant of the OS X image you are using.

I did a post about it somewhere. Might be in the TTLUG archives.

Beomagi · « **Reply #14 on:** October 28, 2005, 04:21:22 PM »

Quote from: W1nTry on March 09, 2005, 09:19:58 AM

For those that have used a mac at any point in their life for any extended period of time. They will know what it was great, faster than w1indows of its time, with lower hardware requirements (though I am sure the price made up for that difference).

early on - yes, later on, HELL no - least till osx came along.
It took osx to really make the os as functional as i would like. I just wish they didn't go with the mach kernel. Big bad bottleneck for running a server. Nicest gui on a posix system though

TinyGrasshopper · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2005, 04:01:02 PM »

I think that could be historical because the Mach kernel was related to the NeXT OS when Jobs left Apple.

specialK · « **Reply #16 on:** November 03, 2005, 06:27:31 AM »

Basilisk was my favourite Mac emulator of all time. hardware used to work fine. and the speed was real good for slower pentium 3s.

Carigamers · « **Reply #16 on:** November 03, 2005, 06:27:31 AM »

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