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Mac os X emulation on a pc? Mac os fullstop even!!

  • 13-01-2005 2:32pm
    #1
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭


    I was in a friends house and he was showing me some studio software (garageband) which is only available on the mac and it blew me away! It really is the beez kneez of easy to use software.

    On the site it lets you download it for free at 22 megs!

    I dont have a mac, and i know alot of you will say 'dont be so tight go and get a mac'... In reality im not going to buy a mac to use one piece of software.

    I was googling and i came across a few tools which have shown mac os X running in windows XP, but im not sure if its teh safest thing to do..

    I found 2 sites
    http://www.emulators.com/softmac.htm
    And
    http://sveinbjorn.vefsyn.is/mac_on_win_on_mac (mac-windows-mac)

    Is it possible for me to get my hands on an emulator that will let me purchase the mac os and run it on my pc? Is it even possible for me to install mac os on my PC? Or is mac os only able to run on certain motherboards and processors?

    Cheers

    reD.


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    PearPC - PowerPC Architecture Emulator
    This will allow you to install and run OS X on your Windows\Linux box.


  • #3
    banbutcher
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭banbutcher


    there is an alternate, i was lookin for the same thing when i came across acid pro, its basicly the same as garage band only its for the pc! then i got all the sounds and samples off my friend who had the mac and now im pretty pleased with the outcome!


  • #4
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    banbutcher wrote:
    there is an alternate, i was lookin for the same thing when i came across acid pro, its basicly the same as garage band only its for the pc! then i got all the sounds and samples off my friend who had the mac and now im pretty pleased with the outcome!
    acid is a damn fine app (at least it was back when sonic foundry owned it)
    but its far from free

    theres prolly a demo of it here


  • #5
    garthv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭garthv


    cant u do a twin boot system?


  • #6
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    doodle_sketch, i saw that tool before! its in the second link afaik - i thought yer man used that to emulate windows on his mac, not ther other way around! Legend! Nice one for that - ill keep you all updated on the progress!

    banbutcher, is that not more of a loop based app? I need something that will set drumbeats and let me record to them n so on :o


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  • #7
    red_ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    if i wanna use that pearPC app do i need to create a new partition? Or will it make a folder for itsself and install mac os to my hdd then run it in a window inside of windows?


  • #8
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    As far as I can gather from the documentation, its all saved onto a single file that acts as an emulated partition. They have 3GB and 6GB empty disk images in the download section so that you don't have to go to the hassle of creating your own. If you want different sizes, there is also a Python script that, afaik,builds a file of your choice of size.


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Don't forget it's gonna be slow, consider a second hand low spec Mac as another option.


  • #10
    Mixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Mixie


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    Don't forget it's gonna be slow, consider a second hand low spec Mac as another option.

    I was running Panther through PearPC on a 2600XP, gig of ram, etc type machine and it *crawled* along (even after editing the config files to allow more memory usage/etc).


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