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Alucard_The_Dex
August 15th, 2007, 10:35
I see alota game emulators and such but nothing for Operating systems. For instance Qemu emulates hardware to run a OS on. Its Emulation isnt it? Just wondering.

Spellsong
August 15th, 2007, 15:08
Um there are Macintosh emulators that are emulated up to OS9 (Sheepshaver, and some other I can't pronounce), and one for X, but its slow. Plus some other emulators that emulate stuff I could not remember.

TchuBacha
August 15th, 2007, 15:44
Haven't you heard of VMware and VirtualPC? They are probably the most used and well known emulators out there.

Alucard_The_Dex
August 16th, 2007, 07:23
I know of them And i chose Qemumanager. But none of the 4 are on the homepage to my knowledge And infact there are 100s of legal "Roms" if you enjoy linux so why nothing about them at all?

Zach
August 17th, 2007, 17:13
The short answer is they are likely not the most popular..

Everyone wants consoles, and that's really what EZ started with, so that's pretty much it.. There is a section on the site somewhere with SOME PC emulators I think, but I don't know where it is cause I've never gotten them from here either.

montpics
August 20th, 2007, 12:50
Haven't you heard of VMware and VirtualPC? They are probably the most used and well known emulators out there.
You're forgetting VirtualBox? :)

TchuBacha
August 20th, 2007, 12:59
You're forgetting VirtualBox? :)

And Bochs, QEMU and PearPC :p:D

Spellsong
August 21st, 2007, 06:20
Wait. Can QMEU emulate Mac OSX? I must of misread it somewhere.

Alucard_The_Dex
August 21st, 2007, 17:57
It can do mac But osx i dunno

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/user-doc.html

Spellsong
August 21st, 2007, 23:22
They guide simply says no. O well. I have Sheepshaver and Basilisk II for my non mac OSX emulation needs.

Alucard_The_Dex
August 22nd, 2007, 02:14
Weird Qemumanager has options for mac Sorry

AnAutisticDog
August 22nd, 2007, 16:53
I still have bochs on my PSP with WIN95. LOL

Spellsong
August 23rd, 2007, 17:06
Weird Qemumanager has options for mac Sorry



Only PowerPC I think it said it emulates, I think. It said OSX in particular does not run.