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Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:07 am
by 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
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 12:46 am
by 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
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 2:50 am
by Solar
Pete wrote:
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.)
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 9:16 am
by 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.
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 11:29 am
by 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
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:26 am
by 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
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:48 am
by srg
thinklogic wrote:
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
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:13 am
by 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
Re:Promising PPC Emulator
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:52 am
by 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!
for those who wish to write a walkthrough of an OS installation might consider this method to capture all the needed step by step screenshot.