Cherry OS??

Raven · 03-09-2005, 10:48 AM

Has anyone used Cherry OS ? http://www.mxsinc.com/pages.php?cid=MDEwMDA4
Its a Panther emulator for PC... Want to know from people's perspective if its good (cause obvioulsy the company will say its great...)

pink · 03-09-2005, 11:29 AM

There's some comments here .
Those that do not only deal with the ethical aspects of the whole story (i.e. those that even tried to use it) do not rate the thing very well...

cheers, pink

staypuft · 03-09-2005, 11:37 AM

Is it actually out? Their page wont load right now. I heard about CherryOS months ago when they first said it was ready... then they said they were going to wait a few months... then a few months more. It seemed like it was just a ploy to get people to stress test their streaming video codec/server.

pink · 03-09-2005, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by staypuft


	Is it actually out? Their page wont load right now.

That's because it was on /.

There's a free trial here

Cheers, pink

cameranerd74 · 03-09-2005, 01:38 PM

Okay, so I'm in class last night (I go to night school for IT) and my buddy Carl whips out his Dell D600 and proceeds to boot it into Mac OS X. As I'm sitting there laughing hysterically... I pull out my PowerBook and fire up VPC and boot into XP (of course, we're both running in full-screen). It wasn't long before we had a crowd... A Powerbook running XP and a Dell running Mac OS X.

Anyway... he downloaded this program called CherryOS, which is a PowerPC emulator for X86. Surprisingly it works pretty good. There's still some networking bugs, but it works.

The best part about the whole thing is that Carl is a die-hard Windows user, but after only a day or two using OSX, he admits he's really starting to like it.

AHunter3 · 03-09-2005, 01:48 PM

CherryOS appears to be an illicit repackaging of GNU-licensed freeware emulator PearPC.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/MacEm...es/?msg=5913.1

http://forums.h80571.serverkompetenz...pic.php?t=1237

http://forums.h80571.serverkompetenz...pic.php?t=2374

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m/197006212731

cameranerd74 · 03-09-2005, 01:54 PM

Interesting. I have heard of PearPC, but this was the first I'd seen CherryOS.

CAlvarez · 03-09-2005, 02:02 PM

My girlfriend has been using PearPC on her laptop to play around for a while. It's extremely slow (slower than Windows in VPC), but does work pretty well, even the networking.

yellow · 03-09-2005, 02:15 PM

[Not a Mac OS X Help request, so it's moving to the Coat Room. Plus, there's another thread about it that I will tack onto this one.. sorry folks.

New link will be here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=36280]

cameranerd74 · 03-11-2005, 12:48 PM

My buddy did some disassembly on the code... it's defintiely a PearPC ripoff. Oh well, he's now running PearPC using his OSX build from CherryOS.

03-09-2005, 10:48 AM	#1
Raven Hall of Famer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 4,782	Cherry OS ?? Has anyone used Cherry OS ? http://www.mxsinc.com/pages.php?cid=MDEwMDA4 Its a Panther emulator for PC... Want to know from people's perspective if its good (cause obvioulsy the company will say its great...) __________________ Waffled foreheads are a symptom of broken keyboards and inexperienced users

03-09-2005, 11:29 AM	#2
pink Major Leaguer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 441	There's some comments here . Those that do not only deal with the ethical aspects of the whole story (i.e. those that even tried to use it) do not rate the thing very well... cheers, pink __________________ "And what have we got in here ? - Ahh, things.." (Louis (2), inspecting kitchen cupboards.)

03-09-2005, 01:38 PM	#5
cameranerd74 All Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 794	Cherry OS? Okay, so I'm in class last night (I go to night school for IT) and my buddy Carl whips out his Dell D600 and proceeds to boot it into Mac OS X. As I'm sitting there laughing hysterically... I pull out my PowerBook and fire up VPC and boot into XP (of course, we're both running in full-screen). It wasn't long before we had a crowd... A Powerbook running XP and a Dell running Mac OS X. Anyway... he downloaded this program called CherryOS, which is a PowerPC emulator for X86. Surprisingly it works pretty good. There's still some networking bugs, but it works. The best part about the whole thing is that Carl is a die-hard Windows user, but after only a day or two using OSX, he admits he's really starting to like it. __________________ I'm Microsoft Certified and I use a Mac... what does that tell you?

03-09-2005, 01:48 PM	#6
AHunter3 Hall of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 3,032	CherryOS appears to be an illicit repackaging of GNU-licensed freeware emulator PearPC. http://forums.delphiforums.com/MacEm...es/?msg=5913.1 http://forums.h80571.serverkompetenz...pic.php?t=1237 http://forums.h80571.serverkompetenz...pic.php?t=2374 http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m/197006212731 Last edited by AHunter3; 03-09-2005 at 01:55 PM.

03-09-2005, 01:54 PM	#7
cameranerd74 All Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 794	Interesting. I have heard of PearPC, but this was the first I'd seen CherryOS. __________________ I'm Microsoft Certified and I use a Mac... what does that tell you?

03-09-2005, 11:37 AM	#3
staypuft All Star Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: USA Posts: 628	Is it actually out? Their page wont load right now. I heard about CherryOS months ago when they first said it was ready... then they said they were going to wait a few months... then a few months more. It seemed like it was just a ploy to get people to stress test their streaming video codec/server.

03-09-2005, 02:02 PM	#8
CAlvarez Hall of Famer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 4,975	My girlfriend has been using PearPC on her laptop to play around for a while. It's extremely slow (slower than Windows in VPC), but does work pretty well, even the networking. __________________ -- Carlos Alvarez, Phoenix, AZ "MacBook Nano" (Lenovo S10) Atom 1.6/2GB/160GB Mac OS X 10.5.6 Gigabyte Quad Core 2.83GHz Hackintosh 4GB/500GB Mac OS X 10.6 MacBook Air 1.8/2GB/64GB SSD http://www.televolve.com

03-09-2005, 02:15 PM	#9
yellow Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 10,677	[Not a Mac OS X Help request, so it's moving to the Coat Room. Plus, there's another thread about it that I will tack onto this one.. sorry folks. New link will be here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=36280] Last edited by yellow; 03-09-2005 at 02:18 PM.

03-11-2005, 12:48 PM	#10
cameranerd74 All Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 794	My buddy did some disassembly on the code... it's defintiely a PearPC ripoff. Oh well, he's now running PearPC using his OSX build from CherryOS. __________________ I'm Microsoft Certified and I use a Mac... what does that tell you?