Thread

x486emulation

68kMLA PowerPC 13 posts Jan 7, 2008 to Jan 10, 2008

#1 Mon, 7 Jan 2008 - 16:27 68kMLA

once upon a time i had a program, it was called PCX 1.1 i do belive. it did full 2/3/486 and partial 586 emulation on a macintosh computer via a simple DOS interface based off an acutal PC bios that they had created. another more stable program i had heard of was Connectix VirtualPC 1.0-3.x for Windows Emulation on a Mac. however i have not been able to find workign downloads for either pice of software thusfar. from what i have heard Microshaft might have obliterated all the old VPC downlaods. anyone have nay ideas?

#2 Mon, 7 Jan 2008 - 21:11 68kMLA

VPC 7 is free for download.

So is DOSbox.

Go forth and emulate x86.

#3 Mon, 7 Jan 2008 - 21:43 68kMLA

the only links for VPC at that link to versiontracker you sent were upgrade only for the liscense and its 99$ for v4.0.x update. DOSbox doesnt run on pre osx machines from what i can tell.

#4 Mon, 7 Jan 2008 - 22:48 68kMLA

My mistake.

The Windows version is free.

You can try Wine for running apps. If you need windows itself and aside from pirating or paying for VPC 7 (or other) I don't know of an app to do that.

#5 Tue, 8 Jan 2008 - 23:22 68kMLA

http://www.kju-app.org/kju/ can emulate a full PC... only for OSX though(it's a port of QEMU, which is for all current platforms.)

#6 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 - 01:48 68kMLA

If you still want to give PCX a shot, you can get version 1.0b4 from here.

#7 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 - 01:51 68kMLA

As far as I know, there are no free software x86 emulation programs for the 'Classic' Mac OS. All cost money, and all are discontinued.

The big two were Soft[PC/AT/Windows] and Virtual PC. Microsoft bought out Connectix, and took over development and sales of Virtual PC, but stopped development on it when the Intel Macs came out. They have made the Windows version of Virtual PC free, but the Mac version (which only works on PowerPCs,) still costs money, if you can find it.

#8 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 - 04:34 68kMLA

well i found a copy of PCX-1.1b when i can relocate one of the three PB1400 floppy drives i used to have i'm gonna give it another shot.

#9 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 - 04:47 68kMLA

http://www.kju-app.org/kju/ can emulate a full PC... only for OSX though(it's a port of QEMU, which is for all current platforms.)

Hey thanks for this!

I am downloading it and ReactOS to try it out.

#10 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 - 10:32 68kMLA

No problem. I mainly use QEMU with my Linux box(None of my OSX Macs are fast enough to actually do much in the way of emulation) but I'm pretty sure the principle's the same.

#11 Wed, 9 Jan 2008 - 18:55 68kMLA

Well ReactOS is interesting. It seems to be lacking drivers for sound, ethernet and VGA. Pretty responsive considering I am emulating a Windows environment on a PPC processor.

Couldn't get ReactOS to fire up in VPC though. I'll try a little more experimentation.

I am interested to see whether Q or VPC offers better emulation performance.

#12 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - 00:54 68kMLA

Well, reactOS is in early alpha if i remember correctly. I think I tried it on a real PC a good while ago and it seemed like a pretty decent Windows clone, but a little buggy.

#13 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - 01:35 68kMLA

it would be nice to find a emulator that would at least be able to use the video card that was in the Mac like VPC did with 3dfx cards back in the day, and use it as such instead of emulating a generic video card like VPC does now (ewww S3 virge DX)