RE: [B2-devel] Can't run BasiliskII on Fedora Core 3 x86

[Tomek J. <to...@je...>]

 
> Hmmm, I've got a stupid question, then. When I looked at 
> SheepShaver, I understood that it was only relevant on ppc 
> machines. Was I wrong? Here's the first paragraph of the 
> doc/index.html file in the SheepShaver CVS tree
> :
> 
> "SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for Linux that 
> allows you to run MacOS applications at native speed inside 
> the Linux multitasking environment on  PowerPC-based  Linux 
> systems. This means that both Linux and MacOS applications 
> can run at the same time and data can be exchanged between them."
> 

Read a bit more please (from
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/SheepShaver.html):
"There is also a built-in PowerPC emulator for non-PowerPC systems"

> Does SheepShaver run on x86 and x86-64? How does it position 
> itself compared to BasiliskII, pretty much like VMWare (-> 
> BasiliskII) and Wine (-> SheepShaver)?
> 
> I'm a bit confused.
> 
> Back on topic, I recall having seen posts about x86_64 fixes 
> for SheepShaver, as well as builds that supposedly fixed the 
> "black screen"
> some people were seeing. This "black screen" seems to be what 
> I'm getting with older BasiliskII releases, so if anyone has 
> more info on that particular problem and how to work around 
> it, I'd really appreciate it.
> Backports of the asm fixes to BasiliskII for testing would 
> also be very welcome :-)
> 
> Matthias

SheepShaver works on x86 and x86_64 Linux and x86 Windows and emulates
PowerMac to a certain degree so that it can run MacOS up to 9.0.4. It is
pretty fast and actually usable. My guess is that on P4 3GHz it matches
speed of 200MHz G4.

BasiliskII emulates old 680x0 Macs whereas SheepShaver emulates PowerPC
Macs.

Jerzu