Anyway, we are still in an early stage of development. The recompiler works for simple applications and the loader for linux seems to work as well.

Therefore we will need a Mach-O loader as well as an implementation of the dynamic linker for Linux. Tobias Bratfisch is working on on making Darwin/PPC's Mach-O binaries run on Linux/PPC. In addition, all that knowlegde that will be gained by making Mac OS X run on the IBM PC architecture might help creating a reimplementation of parts and eventually all of Mac OS X unter the GPL, providing a fully open source Mac OS X clone for other processors than just the PowerPC.Ĭurrently, we focus on two seperate sub-projects: Michael Steil is working on a PPC/x86 recompiler to make Darwin/PPC applications run on Darwin/x86. This compatibility layer consists of an emulator/dynamic recompiler of user mode PowerPC code and a layer between PowerPC code and native x86 code that handles endianness issues.Īnother layer can make x86 applications run on top of the PowerPC Mac OS X libraries, which in turn run on x86 hardware, so Mac OS X applications that have been developed for the PowerPC can be recompiled for the x86 CPU.

Instead, Darwin/x86 or GNU/Linux will run on the PC, and the Mac OS X user interface, its libraries and all applications running on top of it will run on Darwin or GNU/Linux, using SoftPear's compatibility layer. We do not develop an emulator for PowerPC Macintosh machines (like 'PearPC', or like 'Basilisk' or 'UAE' for other platforms), though the project has more similarities to Digital's 'FX!32', FreeBSD's 'Linux Binary Compatbility' and 'WINE'. Therefore this project seeks to create compatibility layers to run Mac OS X on IBM PC hardware. With Mac OS X, an excellent operating system is available, unfortunately it runs only on Macintosh hardware.

The SoftPear Project aims to create compatibility software between the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh architecture. QEMU - A more modern emulator with broader hardware support. PearPC - A PowerPC system emulator that lets you run certain PowerPC versions of Mac OS/OS X as well as Linux. Jump to: Select a forum - PowerPC Emulation PearPC SheepShaver Other SheepShaver configurations QEMU 68k Mac Emulation Basilisk II Mini vMac and Other Mac Emulators Other General Macintosh Emulation Off Topic.

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