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CherryOS Re-Surfaces
Posted by SPeedY_B on the 9th March 2005 at 12:53pm 7 comments

The application we've all grown to know as the PearPC rip off has once again shown it's face to the public.

Back when CherryOS was first demo'd, many users spotted the remarkable similarities between the application and PearPC, the first application of it's kind. Shortly after this, CherryOS withdrew their product. After a long wait CherryOS has once again returned, however this time offering a publicly accessible download for all to try the product.

Unfortunately, it would appear that old habits die hard, reports indicate that CherryOS boots up in the exact same manner as PearPC, its error messages and source files are nearly identical. CherryOS also includes MacOnLinuxVideo, which is the same driver used by PearPC to speed up graphics. The CherryOS configuration file also closely mirrors that used by PearPC.

Users have been reporting various results of the emulator, some saying it runs faster than PearPC, some saying it runs even slower! Yet it would appear that the actual majority of users can't even get the app to work due to various bugs, one of the main problems being unable to create a disk image to install your emulated o/s onto, funnily enough a quick fix for this is to use a disk image created by PearPC.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this one turns out...

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Comment posted by Electronic Punk at 2:35pm on the 9th March 2005   
Apparently this has alot of PearPC code in it.
Anyone checked it out yet? With a licenced MacOS of course.
 
Comment posted by SPeedY_B at 2:49pm on the 9th March 2005   
Will be tonight. Carting my OS X install CD's round a friends house.

And yeah, it's just a re-badged PearPC again, the apparent optimisations are that the re-draw variable in the conf file is now set to 10ms rather than the PearPC default of 250ms. There's also a new CPU type variable which no one's 100% certain what it does yet (heaven forbid it may point to original code, and not another PearPC rip Smilie)
 

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