PearPC is a PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions of Mac OS X, Darwin, and Linux on x86 hardware. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can be used on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and other systems based on POSIX-X11. The first official release was made on May 10, 2004. The software was often used to run early versions of OS X on Windows XP computers.
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PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. The configure script auto-detects your platform. You can override with: --enable-cpu=generic jitc x86 jitc x86 64 --enable-ui=sdl x11 win32 beos All configuration can be provided via config file, command line, or both. CLI options override config file values. The config file is optional if all needed values have defaults or are set via CLI. Keypresses are sent directly to the client when the PearPC window is focused. PearPC uses a raw keyboard layout -- configure your preferred layout in the client OS. Press F11 to enter compose mode for key combinations that your host window manager intercepts (e.g., to send Ctrl+Alt+Del: press F11, then Ctrl, Alt, Del, then F11 again). PearPC uses plain text configuration files. See ppccfg.example for a fully commented example. All options can also be set from the command line (use --help to list all keys). Key options: ppc start resolution "800x600x15" Window size and depth (15 or 32) ppc start full screen 0 Start in fullscreen mode redraw interval msec 20 Redraw interval (10-500ms) memory size 0x8000000 RAM size (min 64 MiB) cpu pvr 0x000c0201 Processor version: G3=0x00080200, G4=0x000c0201 headless 0 Run without display prom bootmethod "auto" Boot method: auto, select, or force prom driver graphic Set to "video.x" for Mac OS X pci ide0 master installed 0 Enable IDE master (HDD or CD-ROM) pci ide0 master image Path to disk image (.img) or ISO (.iso) pci ide0 master type "hd" , "cdrom" , or "nativecdrom" pci ide0 slave installed 0 Enable IDE slave pci 3c90x installed 0 Enable 3Com NIC pci rtl8139 installed 0 Enable Realtek NIC nvram file "nvram" NVRAM storage file memdump file Memory dump file on exit/crash (empty = no dump) framebuffer dump file Framebuffer dump file on exit/crash (empty = no dump)
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PearPC is a PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions of Mac OS X, Darwin, and Linux on x86 hardware. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can be used on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and other systems based on POSIX-X11. The first official release was made on May 10, 2004. The software was often used to run early versions of OS X on Windows XP computers.
== History == PearPC was released in May of 2004 by developers Sebastian Biallas and Stefan Weyergraf. Original releases were noted for being slow and unstable, but were still well received by the community. On July 6, 2004, Weyergraf was killed by a train, but development continued. The last current version of PearPC was 0.5.0, released on July 13, 2011. One of the reasons given for the development slowing down after 2005 was Apple's transition from PowerPC to x86 architecture.
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