PearPC - PowerPC Architecture Emulator for PC = Mac OS X on a PC. Thread starter malibux; Start date May 11. Aren't there powerpc emulators for macos emulators is MacOS 8.1. MacOS 8.5 is PPC-only. Other PowerPC emulators. SoftPear, a different approach for Mac OS X on non PowerPC hardware.; QEMU, emulates also ARM, Sparc and x86 processors.; SheepShaver, runs MacOS 7.5.2 thru 8.6.; Basilisk II, emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used.

Listed on this page are Macintosh emulators: some of them emulate a 68k Macintosh (such as what you get inthe Macintosh Quadra, Performa, Classic, etc), others emulate a PowerPC Macintosh. Note that if you are usinga 68k Mac emulator and wish to run Mac OS (such as System 7.5.5, etc), you will need to havea real Mac around somewhere since such systems require you to have a Mac ROM. (the various emulators usually provide you with instructionson how you can make a copy of the ROM from your real Mac).

At present, I know of no software emulator that can emulate an Intel x86 Macintosh or to run OS X in a virtual machine on a PC.

Note: if you are looking for an emulator or virtual machine that runs on a Mac and allows you to emulate a PC, running operating systems like Windows,you should try the Free x86 PC Emulators and Virtual Machines page instead.If you prefer the features, speed and completeness of support of a commercial software, try looking atParallels Desktop for MacandVMWare Fusion

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SoftPear is a compatibility layer that allows you to run Mac OS X on PC (x86) hardware. It works by dynamicallyrecompiling Mac programs (including Mac OS X) into x86 binary code that runs on your PC, and adding a layer thattranslates things like endianness.

This is essential a virtual machine that allows you to run Mac OS as well as Mac OS X on top of a Linux host system that runs on a PowerPC computer.Supported host CPUs include the PowerPC 603, 604, G3 and G4. It also allows the use of AltiVec in the Guest OS if the CPU supports it. At the timethis was written, only PCI devices (hard disks, USB drives, CDROM and DVD drives, etc) that do not use DMA are natively supported.

SheepShaver allows you to run classic MacOS applications on BeOS and Linux. It includes a PowerPC emulator which isused if you are using a non-PPC system. It supports MacOS 7.5.2 to 8.6 as the guest operating system, a colour display,internet and LAN networking via Ethernet, serial drivers, SCSI Manager emulation, file exchange with the host OS,access to floppy disks, CD-ROMs, HFS(+) partitions on hard disks, sound, etc.

PearPC emulates a PPC (PowerPC) Macintosh, allowing you to run Darwin PPC, Mac OS X and Linux in the emulated machine.Supported hosts include Windows and Linux (and possibly other Unix-type systems).

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The Advanced Mac Substitute is able to run 68K Mac applications without an Apple ROM or MacOS. It does this byreimplementing the API (that is, the programming interface) of the classic MacOS. The emulator runs onMac OS X and Linux. The program is released as source code, so you will actually compile it intobinary (ie, executable) form before you can run it.

PCE/macplus is an open source emulator for theMacintosh 128K, Macintosh 512k, Macintosh 512ke, Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE and Macintosh Classic.It emulates the MC68000 microprocessor with RAM configurations from 128 KB to 4 MB. Precompiledversions of the emulator, including the ROM image and operating system software, that runs on Windows,are available. The C source code is released under the GNU General Public License. This is the Mac emulatorcurrently used by the Internet Archive for theirMacOS System 7.1 Compilation.

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Basilisk II/JIT is an adaptation of the original Basilisk II Macintosh emulator (see elsewhere onthis page) to includea just-in-time (JIT) compiler (presumably speeding up the emulated machine). Host platforms include Linux/i386,FreeBSD/i386 and Windows. Guest OSes include the 68k Mac OS. Basilisk II/JIT is open source.

The Basilisk II Mac emulator allows you to emulate a 68k Macintosh on a variety of platforms, including BeOS (PowerPCand x86), Unix with X11 (including Linux, Solaris 2.5, FreeBSD and IRIX), AmigaOS 3.x, and Windows. The emulator isable to emulate a Mac Classic or Mac II depending on the Mac ROM you use (not included). Your emulated Mac has a colourdisplay, CD quality sound output, floppy disk drive, HFS partitions and files, CDROM drive, etc. You can easily movefiles between your host system and the emulated machine. Basilisk II is open source.

SoftMac is a 68k Macintosh emulator that runs under Windows. Fusion PC emulates a 68k Mac on MSDOS systems. Note thatin spite of what the website and software claims, I have never been able to get sound working on SoftMac (nor have,apparently, anyone else I know). You will need a Mac ROM for the emulator to work.

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