What is the best PowerPC emulator?
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What is the best PowerPC emulator?
So what do you think is the best PowerPC emulator?
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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?
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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.
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.
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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.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)
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.Stephen Coates wrote: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.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)
Who thinks iFusion for windows (the version with hardware card and the emulator) were/are fake?
If he had anything he would have released it by now.
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.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.
I emerged sheepshaver doubt that's CVS