Cherry OS
Maui X-Stream has announced Cherry OS, a Mac OS X emulator for Windows. The $49 program claims to run Panther on a PC. I find this very hard to believe, but I’m not willing to waste $50 to find out. If it is true, the authors will be shut down before you read this. In order to emulate a Mac you’d have to copy a considerable amount of proprietary Apple software and firmware. It seems highly unlikely that a lone programmer in Hawai’i could reverse engineer such a significant amount of code.
posted by Adam at
8:32 PM
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I'd bet money that it's bogus. Not for the reasons you stated, which aren't entirely accurate, though.
The claim is outrageous because the site says it can emulate a mac -fast-. Emulation of a different processor architecture is slow any way you slice it. You wouldn't actually have to copy any Apple software to pull it off, though. First of all, the PowerPC Architecture wasn't invented, developed, or maintained by Apple. That was all Motorolla. Second off, there is PearPC, a legitimate PowerPC emulator for the x86. That was written mostly by two guys, so it's not that unlikely that a solo dev could do it.
I'd still call it a scam, though.
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