“Following its initial announcement and subsequent controversy last October, Mac emulator CherryOS has finally been released,” Nate Mook reports for BetaNews. “The $49.95 CherryOS was developed by Maui-X-Stream — a small Hawaiian company that makes streaming media technologies — and enables users to run Apple’s Mac OS X operating system atop Windows PCs. The software mimics the Mac G4 processor and touts complete access to a system’s hardware resources and networking capabilities.”
“Its creator, Arben Kryeziu, found himself in hot water last year amid claims the software was simply stolen from the open source PearPC project. With the code now under public scrutiny, it appears that such allegations are true,” Mook reports. “Although PearPC source code is freely available, its usage is governed by the GNU General Public License (GPL), which states that the code and any modifications must be offered by anyone that distributes it. Alleged GPL violations have forced companies such as Linksys to release their code, but the license has never been fully tested in a U.S. court of law.”
Full article here.
Maui-X-Stream’s Description:
With CherryOS — a G4 Emulator — you can install Panther, Apple’s award-winning operating system, onto your PC. In addition, you will be able to use many of the day-to-day applications such as Safari and Apple’s Mail. Perfect for learning a new environment, expanding your PC’s capabilities or finalizing your purchase decision.
A CherryOS trial, which will boot 14 times, is available for download here.
MacDailyNews Take: Windows XP users, if you want to run Mac OS X so badly, go pick up a $499 Mac mini. It’ll work much better for you; it’s easily worth the price.
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i tried mi powermac G5 os x dics on mi pc but it doesnt work!
any help thx
Mitch – You have to use the retail disks
I got it to successfully run, However, theys seem2 pretty reluctant to perform in the heavier tasks. I loaded PS CS and was able to run it. I ran it on both an AMD 64 3000+ and a P4 3.4 HT and the AMD clearly won on performance. They where both the same way on the heaviey tasks. After all of that though, I’ll just use my G5
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Nice Sp on my part
do you know if anywhere on the net is an .iso for mac os x? thx
Mitch – u can’t be serious.
If you are, then kindly fuck off.
Jerry T —
u so kewt
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I don’t get it…
CherryOS won’t even let me install Mac OS X on the virtual drive it creates!
This program is a big failure.