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Running OS X on a PC

BABOOBABOO Registered User regular
edited November 2007 in Games and Technology
So, I stumbled across something called http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/.

However, it seems rather...old.

I know there's something called OSx86 but am not sure how stable it is.

Does anybody know any ways to virtualize OS X in an XP environment?

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  • LachLach Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (neat hardware compatibility lists)

    and more recently I saw this:

    http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2007/11/14/build_a_hackintosh_mac_for_und.html


    This is all I've got. I hope it helps

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Yeah, enterprising hackers have found ways to run OS X right on a commodity non-Mac PC, although it's generally a pain. Apart from the sheer novelty, though, there's no real good reason to do so.

    Besides, doing so requires the circumvention of certain protections, which goes straight into a legal gray area, among other things.

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Doing this violates Apple's License Agreement, and is such breaking civil law. It's not a grey area at all, it's straight up punishable in court.

    You shouldn't talk about this here.

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  • ROFISHROFISH AnehiixiiRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Technically it's against the license to install OS X on non-Apple hardware, but the law is muddy about EULAs. (Some courts say yes, some courts say no) It used to be illegal as you couldn't flat-out buy intel OS X, it only came with the laptops. But you can buy Leopard now. (although no patching for it exists)

    That said, running a hacked operating system is kinda meh. You can't update or else it will mess with your system. And farthest away from a C2D setup, the harder it is to get running. (AMD nForce 4 support really sucks. :() It's just missing random things. I had no network drivers for the longest time, but I finally got those. Video card drivers are 'meh' at best. You just have to get the right brand the official Apple cards used. I never had a working SATA driver.

    But when it works, it's great. I had full Rosetta support, so I could use MS Office in it's slow-ass glory. Parallels needed a hack, but it works fine. Since I had 99% video card support because I have an X1600 (the only thing I couldn't do is go to sleep mode, the video card didn't wake up), I had full hardware 3D support so random game works. (Well Starcraft worked, it's the only game I have for Mac.)

    EDIT: The reason why it's illegal is because certain programs, like the Dock, are hardware excrypted. (Remember that evil Fritz/TPM chip thing from the early 2000s?) Decrypting it violates the DMCA.

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    It's about as illegal as ripping a DVD, which we talk about here all the time. I defer to the mods, but in the scheme of things, it's not bad.

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2007
    Unless I'm very mistaken, there is no way to install retail OS X on a PC.

    There IS a totally illegal generic x86 binary of OS X out there, but we really don't talk about that here due to strict anti-piracy rules.

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