What is the best PowerPC emulator?

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sun May 16, 2004 3:24 pm

So what do you think is the best PowerPC emulator?

ataxy · Post by **ataxy** » Sun May 16, 2004 4:02 pm

ok here is what motivated me to vote for pear pc
#1only one to run on both linux and windows
#2runs the latest release of Mac Os
#3runs most linux/bsd etc for ppc

but there is a but, i would vote for sheepshaver for the fact that it is in a more advance state so speeds are better

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:07 pm

If I could vote for two emulators, then I would vote for PearPC and SheepShaver, they are both good.
I will have to install and use them both first to be able to vote.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:40 pm

I'd have to vote for SheepShaver. It's the only one that can run MacOS PPC at a useable speed, for now.

Summers · Post by **Summers** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:57 pm

PearPC's the greatest - it runs Panther.

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Thu May 20, 2004 8:51 pm

I'm suprised that most people have voted for PearPC. I thought most people would have voted for sheepshaver, as sheepshaver is usable, however, pearpc is good because it runs macosx

Trombone Bob · Post by **Trombone Bob** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:40 pm

Yes but, PearPC runs on windows

Mac Emu · Post by **Mac Emu** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:52 pm

The last two posts mirror my sentiments.

grayfox · Post by **grayfox** » Sat May 22, 2004 3:04 am

Ive never heard of Qemu before today.

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sat May 22, 2004 9:36 am

Theres a couple of posts about QEMU on this board. Has anyone here tried running QEMU

All. · Post by **All.** » Sun May 23, 2004 7:41 am

I've used QEMU to test some Kernel 2.4.21/i386 modifications on a Kernel 2.4.21/i386 host. I was aware that it has PPC support (as both guest and host), but I was under the impression that it was only useful for booting the Linux Kernel, and the documentation didn't remotely seem to mention booting Mac OS. I'll continue to look into it, but is there any reason to suspect otherwise?

prasys · Post by **prasys** » Sun May 23, 2004 7:59 am

I have to go with PearPC because well like other users said , it looks great ,Windows compatible (I am too lazy to boot into Linux and do the shell commands)...Well , I will give a shot on Linux and Windows using PearPC...See which one runs faster...

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:33 am

I wonder how many people would have voted for SoftMac Profesional and iFusion if I put those at the top. :D

:D

hehehe

desertboy · Post by **desertboy** » Wed May 26, 2004 10:05 am

It's a bit unfair to put qemu there as it doesn't boot osx "YET" and only handles powerpc prep kernals.

Pearpc is too slow to do anything on really at the mo, and it's missing important features. (Sound, windows network, true usb support, accurate timings) It's not a viable alternative to owning a mac if you need one.

Sheepshaver is certainly more usuable (Speed wise) but it's too unstable for me to be used everyday yet it's probably fine for occasional use.

Ifusion wasn't a powerpc emulator was it it was more virtualisation only working on amiga's with a powerpc upgrade. (Only booted os9 I believe never used it)

It's got to be sheepshaver for now, unless of course your want to run powerpc linux prep kernal in which case qemu. Of course if you want osx then it has to be pearpc.

I suspect pearpc & qemu will be the emu's to keep an eye on.

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Wed May 26, 2004 3:55 pm

Ifusion wasn't a powerpc emulator was it it was more virtualisation only working on amiga's with a powerpc upgrade. (Only booted os9 I believe never used it)

I forgot about that when I wrote that post, but Microcode Solutions are suppose to be working on a PPC emulator for windows. I wonder if they will EVER release it. Its been nearly finished for over a year now.

Who thinks iFusion for windows (the version with hardware card and the emulator) were/are fake?

desertboy · Post by **desertboy** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:44 pm

Stephen Coates wrote:
Ifusion wasn't a powerpc emulator was it it was more virtualisation only working on amiga's with a powerpc upgrade. (Only booted os9 I believe never used it)
I forgot about that when I wrote that post, but Microcode Solutions are suppose to be working on a PPC emulator for windows. I wonder if they will EVER release it. Its been nearly finished for over a year now.

Who thinks iFusion for windows (the version with hardware card and the emulator) were/are fake?

Defintely fake like Softmac pro, just keep spinning some hype to keep the punters enthralled except now with, pearpc, sheepshaver, qemu & softpear on the way I think they missed the boat by far. All free emu's all better than Softmac anyways.

If he had anything he would have released it by now.

Gwenole · Post by **Gwenole** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:03 pm

desertboy: it would help to get valuable bug reports. If I am not aware of a problem and I can't reproduce it, then I can't fix it. Anyhow, I have now fixed all remaining (random) crashes I had with the latest JIT improvements. If you used a CVS snapshot from the past days of May, then cvs update.

desertboy · Post by **desertboy** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:24 pm

Gwenole wrote:desertboy: it would help to get valuable bug reports. If I am not aware of a problem and I can't reproduce it, then I can't fix it. Anyhow, I have now fixed all remaining (random) crashes I had with the latest JIT improvements. If you used a CVS snapshot from the past days of May, then cvs update.

To be honest it's been at least 8 weeks since I last played around with sheepshaver so I probably shouldn't haven't commented. I ran it on gentoo (Native) and vmware (Winxp host, debian guest) but it could be stable for hours sometimes and very unstable others.

I emerged sheepshaver doubt that's CVS

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