Promising PPC Emulator

[srg]

Hi

I have just found this promising looking PowerPC Emulator called PearPC.

It runs in Linux and Win32 and can run Mac OSX, Dawin and PowerPC Linux (look at the screen shots!). This looks pretty impressive and it seems to have it's own ROM, so no need for the likes of softmac.

I don't have a supporting operating system yet, so I havn't tried it properly (will do as soon as I can) but I have managed to get it to a partition boot selector screen with a blank hard disk image. I assume a lot of PowerPC based machines have this sort of thing (where the PC BIOS doesn't).

Anyway, here's a link:
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

srg

[Therx]

Looks really cool. Maybe someone who has cross compiled their OS for the PPC could describe the process in the OSFAQ? (ie where to get the cross compiler etc.)

Are there any small hobby OSes that run on the Mac that i could take a look at?

Pete

[Solar]

Maybe someone who has cross compiled their OS for the PPC could describe the process in the OSFAQ? (ie where to get the cross compiler etc.)

The instructions on the GCC Cross-Compiler page can be adapted to just about any target simply by changing the value of the TARGET environment variable. (Haven't tried it yet, though.)

[thinklogic]

em
at first,
i thought i can use PPC to boot another os in my XP box,
i tried follow the configuration and able to get the welcome message. asking me to select a boot partition.

i got a freeBSD cd, Mandrake CD, open Linux, redhat, corel linux, and lindows.

could anybody here willing to tell me, how to use this PPC to boot these OSes on?

i am somehow blur, what is Power PC and x86 machine?
are they belong to different architecture?

Does PPC like BOCHS?
Can we use PPC to boot our own OS which print 'Hello World!' using BIOS int?


sincerely,
ThinkLogic.

[Therx]

PPC (Power PC) is the processor used in Macs. It is different from x86 so if you downloaded the standard ISOs for those linux distros then they won't work. You'll need to get the Mac port.

Pete

[thinklogic]

is that possible to use the BOCHS as an emulator to set up my FreeBSD, Corel LInux, Lindows, OpenLinux on my XP Box?


sincerely,
ThinkLogic

[srg]

is that possible to use the BOCHS as an emulator to set up my FreeBSD, Corel LInux, Lindows, OpenLinux on my XP Box?


sincerely,
ThinkLogic

Yes it is, but it will be sssssssslllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooowwwwww, for that I'd try VMWare.

srg

[thinklogic]

thanks
i will try to setup the simple windows 95 first
then i will go to install freeBSD

if i face problem, could i seek ya help by PM? srg?

thanks
sincerely
thinkLogic

[thinklogic]

yeh
i completed the task to set up Windows 95 using BOCHS inside Windows XP. it is kinda slow but i think acceptable, just like the speed of 60 Mhz processor!

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