It's still a pretty tough order. VirtualPC has been out of production since the Tiger era (it is technically not fully compatible with Leopard). Moreover, it presents a fairly simple hardware model which is mainly designed to satisfy Microsoft OSs. As a result, it is highly likely that it does not even represent the minimum requirements for a Hackintosh.
JR On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Anand <[email protected]>wrote: > I'd say it is better than no solution at all, which is where we are at the > moment. I am not concerned about speed as long as it works. We've all > gotten use to things being almost instant. Too bad. > > On Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:14:49 PM UTC-7, Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> >> > I know that it is generally said that a G anything cannot run Snow >> Leopard. >> > However, I run Virtual PC on my iBook G4 so I know that a program can >> be >> > created to emulate an Intel Mac, and it would probably work best if the >> PPC >> > Mac had at least two processors. So, what work has been done on this >> and >> > how can we help? I expect many of you are pretty tired of hearing it >> can't >> > be done. I'm tired of Apple leaving us behind. Time we did something >> about >> > it. So, who do we need to talk to to get this rolling? Peace. >> >> Considering how poky Rosetta was on the first generation Intel Macs -- >> and >> that was without having to emulate the rest of the operating system -- I >> can't imagine that emulating an Intel Mac to a useful level would be >> anything >> short of glacial even on a high end G5. I empathise, but that's just not >> a >> workable solution. >> >> -- >> ------------------------------**------ personal: >> http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- >> Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * >> [email protected] >> -- BOND THEME NOW PLAYING: "The World is Not Enough" >> -------------------------- >> > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
