Hey all, My dad needs to get a mac for his work and only recently bought a PC, so understandably doesnt want to have to fork out again. Is there any way that you can emulate a MAC OS on a PC platform? I was hoping there was somthing similar to a virtual PC. If it supported dual booting that would be even better Cheers Hugh
There's a Mac-OS for PC being half-ass developed called Marklar... it's been around for a while but I don't ever see it getting off the ground. It's kinda like lord of the rings... you'll here a whisper here, a rumor there, but it never really substantiates
There are Mac emulators but I haven't looked into it for about 3 or 4 years but last time I looked they only emulated 68k processors and would only support upto OS8. It may be different now but I doubt it.
Short answer - no. Marklar is the internal codename for Apple's own version of OSX which runs on x86 hardware. It was developed as a 'contingency plan', but has never been publicly released. You can get hold of it if you look extremely hard, but it's so unstable on most hardware as to be almost useless. The best you can hope for is to try and use programs that operate cross platform. Word documents, Photoshop files etc work the same on both Macs and PCs.
smalldog.com sells used Apple computers. the Apple online store has apple done refurbs too. There's nothing you can reallllllly do if they say he needs a Mac.
There is a way to run the base of Mac OS X, and its freely available. Look on Google for 'Darwin Project' or check http://www.linuxiso.org It is basically the BSD core of OS X without much of the GUI system. You can however implement KDE or Gnome, or any such other GUI for a unix based system. This isn't a 100% Mac compliant system tho, and quite a lot of the software designed for OS X won't run, althought some of the java built software, or unix ported to mac software will run perfectly. DeeBee
