squit Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Hi everyone, My name is Daniel and I´m from Brazil. I must say, first, that HACK5 is a very nice show, and a lot of my friends here in Brazil see it. Now my question. My father have a apple´s computer (I thing it is a G5) and there is a lot of cool programs on it, I was wondering: can I run some of these programs at my PC (AMD-64 3500+ / 1Gb RAM, Windows XP) ? ps: Sorry for the terrible english. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Hears the compatibility list ,if you can get OSX to run on your PC then yes you can use "lot of cool programs". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 You can also instal OSX x86 edition now with a few hacks, there is also the visualisation images floating around so that would be another idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squit Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 I was thinking if there is another way to do this...like Wine in Linux...I can't install MacOS X over my computer :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 haha that dudes user name is 'squit' haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 There is the posibility of running an emulator on your pc to simulate the osx environment. Below is a link to a page where they provide many different, possible emulators and good descriptions so that you can easily find the best-suited one for you. http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technologique Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Again, going with the emulator side of things, you could simply run the OS as a virtual machine if you can locate the software required for such an act, and aren't of an ethically opposed viewpoint to pirated software. Torrents are your friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 you cant run powerpc os's in a VM can u... only if he had a x86 ver of tiger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 you cant run powerpc os's in a VM can u... only if he had a x86 ver of tiger... [cough] www.torrents.to [/cough] * Waits for BOFH to strike with the formidable hammer of banning * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 you cant run powerpc os's in a VM can u... only if he had a x86 ver of tiger... So all those console emulators that run on Linux work because... Those consoles all use x86 processors? Nope. Then surely there must be a copy of the chips used in those consoles somewhere inside the system? Nope. Maybe when Techno opted for an emulator, he really meant it? Look for PearPC (or some such) for a virtual Power PC platform. It'll without a doubt be slower than the real thing, but if that's an issue maybe you should just buy the hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squit Posted May 3, 2006 Author Share Posted May 3, 2006 "haha that dudes user name is 'squit' haha" I don´t get it :/ What´s that mean ? I´m a very lame english person... :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 heh don't worry squit, he's just being melodic ;) welcome to the forums, by the way :) when Techno mentioned emulators, I am sure he did mean as Cooper mentioned - something like PearPC - this program will (in theory, and it won't be a smooth ride) let you run the Mac OS as if your PC were a Mac... it won't mess up Windows but you might be able to use it to run those programs you mention. It won't be the best experience in the world, but hopefully good enough to use what you want. You do have a fairly powerful PC, so hopefully it shouldn't be too slow... Oh, one least thing - you'll need a copy of a Mac OS... you might be able to borrow from your father or find it somewhere on the net :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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