Update me

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:54 pm

As I have not used PearPC yet (the last version I downloaded was 0.1) I have sort of lost track of it.

Could someone please briefly update me on the following things?

*Which MacOS is supported
*How fast it is
*How stable it is
*Anything else that would be relevant to a PearPC n00b. (Well, I'm not exactly a n00b, but you could call me one as I have never actually *used* pearpc)

The reason I ask is so I don't have to go crawling round loads of different topics and sites.

Can someone also tell me roughly what sort of speed I could get running MacOSX Jaguar on a 400MHz Celeron processor?

Thanks
Steve

Post by **Cat_7** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:53 pm

Hi Steven,

I am sorry to disappoint you, but with your hardware, you will be looking at a turtle racing a snail. (sheepshaver vs. pearpc)

Also, Panther or Tiger are supported better with PearPC. To get maximum performance, pick up one of the optimized PearPC builds from here:
http://www.prasys.net.tc/

From the official site:
"the client will run about 15 times slower than the host."

So your PC will run a PPC machine at about 400/15=26 Mhz (ok, maybe more like 27Mhz). But still, it will be a nice experience seeing OSX booting on a PC.

Stability is excellent, though!

Good Luck!

Cat_7

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:56 pm

Thanks.

I do have a 500MHz PIII, but it's being a pain in the you know what at the moment, so I've given up uing that until I decide I want to fix it.

I could try it on my dads computer tomorow as that is a 2.4GHz celeron.

Post by **Cat_7** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:00 am

That would be a whole lot better idea.

And as a bonus, PearPC is not in the habit of screwing up a system.

Cat_7

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:03 am

I'll go and do a copy of my mums Jaguar CDs. Unforuantely we don't have any newer versions yet.

Mac Emu · Post by **Mac Emu** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:39 pm

I'm still stuck using Jaguar too. It runs (slow) ok, but there's always been a problem getting it networked (it can be done, at least with an older PearPC build). Let (us) me know if you ever get networking working on PearPC using Jaguar please.

Post by **Cat_7** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:08 pm

Hey MacEmu:

You know what to do: run PearPC 2.0 with mac OS 10.2, the correct TAP-device setup (Pearpc was rather picky on that in those days), and networking is no problem. I once spent a whole evening reinventing

this knowledge when PearPC 0.4 pre was already among us.

Cat_7

Mac Emu · Post by **Mac Emu** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:05 pm

When I quit school (and possibly quit my crappy job) and move into my own apartment in the upcoming weeks, I'll try it out again. Thanks.