PPC Emulator for x86
by Marshall on May 10, 2004
PearPC is “an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems”. It is released unter the GPL too. Unfortunately
Due to the nature of emulation, PearPC is quite slow (the client will run about 500 times slower than the host). Note that only the CPU is that slow, the speed of the emulated hardware doesn’t suffer that much from the emulation; e.g. the speed of simulated harddrive/CDROM is quite good, especially when using the busmaster interface. This situation is better if you can use the JITC but still not ready for productive use.
It is a 0.1 version release so things can only get better. I wish I had a copy of OSX to try it out.
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