Though there's long been a relatively stable application for running Windows-based software on Apple hardware, using Mac-centric programs on Microsoft-minded machines has rarely been possible. A duo ...

PearPC is a new experimental PowerPC emulator. Running on X86 systems, it's horribly slow, incomplete and very unstable. "Don't use it on important data, it WILL destroy them sooner or later!" the ...

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CherryOS, the controversial Macintosh emulator for Windows that some commentators have accused of being a reworked version of open-source project PearPC, has finally been released, five months after ...

Curious folks around the world enjoy a bit of hackintosh every now and then (although once is enough for many), but no geek has successfully ventured as far as Toni Nikkanen of Finland, who became the ...

Several readers have noted a new opensource project that is generating some interest. PearPC 0.1 is an early version of a "an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most ...

A trial version of the CherryOS Mac emulator is once again available for download from the Maui X-Stream website. The $50 Windows software purportedly emulates a G4 processor, allowing a Windows XP ...

Stefan Weyergraf, co-author of PearPC, a new PowerPC emulator, has been killed by a train. From the project's Sourceforge site: "Yesterday evening at 23:00 one of my best friends, one of my best ...

A team of open-source developers has released software which emulates the PowerPC processor architecture and enables users to run Mac OS and some Unix OSes on PCs powered by Intel Corp.

CherryOS developer MXS caused quite a stir late last year with the announcement of CherryOS, an application that would emulate the Macintosh operating system on a Windows PC. Soon after news of ...

A new open-source program lets PCs built around chips from Intel and AMD emulate a computer running the Mac's PowerPC chip--bringing Mac-centric software to Microsoft-minded machines. During her years ...