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windows to mac links to emulators

free preferably

i have a mac g4 and i just bought a new gaming computer i wanted to know what emulators there are out there that convert windows to mac


thanks MC
 
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You want to run PC apps on a Mac correct? VPC, and it's not free. There are no free Windows emulators that I know of. I think there are some DOS ones though.
 
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ha a very confusing post.

but yeah I agree with baggss on what you want.
im not sure if there is anything like PearPC for mac.. open source or likewise...
 
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no i want to run mac apps on windows

thanks and sry bout the confusing post
 
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Wow, that's even harder. There were some apps some years back that allowed a mac emulation on Win95/98, but it only ran OS7 and OS8 IIRC. Have not heard of anything since then.

Anyone else?
 
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baggss said:
Wow, that's even harder. There were some apps some years back that allowed a mac emulation on Win95/98, but it only ran OS7 and OS8 IIRC. Have not heard of anything since then.

Anyone else?
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yeah, you are thinking of Basilisk...that emulates Classic OS's

PearPC lets you emulate OS X on a Windows PC.
There is also Cherry OS that does pretty much the same thing

Just do a google for it.
 
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Yep, that was it.

I completely forgot about PearPC and Cherry. To be honest, I know at least one person who tried PearPC and said it was worthless. Have not read much about Cherry, but all that I have read has been bad.
 
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yeah note my first post ;)
 

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