If you had as much experience of small companies and products like this you would know not to trust statements like that!
I have been in the Mac-on-PC emulation scene for a very long time, so long in fact that I have given up waiting. There were two companies that seriously promised PPC emulation when I moved back home to Sweden 3.5 years ago, and still nothing.
Such cynicism! What did they do to you to make you so jaded? Over the years, people have doubted that company frequently. BLPE was presumed to be vaporware for a _very_ long time, but the company delivered. Heck, even today people think they've died, but they're still around.
How about a little optimism on this list for a change.
Sometimes the small companies really are diamonds in the rough.
Mac-on-PC emulation: Is that really relevant here, anyway? Were talking PC-on-Mac emulation, not the reverse. Besides, the market for Mac OS emulation on a PC has got to be pretty small (how many PC users genuinely want to run the Mac OS in emulation, and how many of them _need_ to). The major reason for doing it on a Mac is to get access to software that isn't available for Mac OS (like MS Access or the like). There isn't a whole lot of big-name software on the Mac that doesn't have a PC version...
Anyway, the point was that your quote was out-of-context. It seems pretty clear to me that the company's _intent_ IS to produce an OS X compatible version of BLPE. And it seems to me that emulating a PC is harder than compiling code that will run is OS X... So if they could do the former, the latter certainly should be possible for them.
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