XP on a Mac

As soon as the Intel based Apple Macs were announced there was a flurry
of speculation about them being able to run Windows. There was even a

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competition, worth $13000 to the winner, for the first person to achieve
this. The prize was paid out but the solution is clunky and unsupported.

There are a couple of emulators available, have been for a number of
years, that will run windows in a virtual world, but they have problems
on the Intel Mac platform and the main one now belongs to Microsoft and
development has all but stopped.

While all this was going on, Apple must have been quietly smiling away.

Rabbit...

MS Virtual Earth has wiped out Apple. Is that in retaliation ???;-)

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But that Report was Dated July last Year (2005)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_deletes_aple/

Pay particular attention to the box outs on the right.

Apple continues to surprise.

Posted here because I know one or two people will be interested. :-)

Jeff Gaines...

Yes indeed :-)

But will I be able to run OSX on my XP laptop.....

Peirrepoint...

Hmm, the answer is..................... possibly, maybe !! :(

Have been playing with OS X on my machines.

Of the 3 machines, it will only instal and run on 1 :(

Anita...

Well my grandson installed xp on his G4 notebook about 2 months ago - to
enable him to do the homework he has to do. He was a little shame faced
when he told me - cos he said he would never use Windows again if he
could help it.

He has it installed under virtual pc. It only boots stand alone on
Intel.

That machine has an AMD Semperon 64bit processor. The other 2 have 32bit
processors, and OS X won't touch them, but still some playing to do. Need to
dig out some old hard-drives.

Installation is a doddle, once you figure out that you need a completeley
blank, un-partitioned drive, this may be my problem with the other 2 pcs.
That said, installed it to my 'junk' drive after removing all partitons.
Junk drive is only 18GB and when OS X is installed there is still 12.5GB
free :)

The main problem I have found will be all to familiar to most here, no
bloomin drivers for your existing kit :(
So far have been unable to find suitable drivers for the on-board video,
NVidia Geforce6100 and my Belkin USB Wireless adapter. Graphics driver is no

datasmog...

You won't get the Belkin to work properly, it's useless even on a real
Mac.
Networking requires ethernet, on Macs since Pontius was Pilot, or an
Airport compatible wireless card. Curiously older Belkin PCI wireless
cards work flawlessly without drivers, the newer ones don't work at all.
I'm amazed you've got this far ;-)

Peirrepoint...

Have an old PCI wireless card somewhere, which I will give a whizz. Thanks
for the tip :-)

datasmog...

I'm assuming you're playing with the developer version of Intel OSX
since as far as I'm aware no-one has managed to run the release version
on anything other than Apple hardware. If they have I missed the
broohaha.
As there are significant differences between the two versions I would
suggest your tinkering has no future. :-)

real problem as I'm only 'playing'. Lack of a wireless driver is a real pain

Jeff Gaines...

Well you've certainly made progress :-)
Is there a prize for getting OSX to run on a non-Mac box? ray mentioned
the prize for the opposite situation.
Have you tried BSD drivers (if there are any) - I think OSX runs on top
of BSD?

:(

Hope info is of use

Jeff Gaines...

Yes, I'm watching closely!

Peirrepoint...

Will have a look and see if there are any BSD drivers, must admit, didn't
think of that one, even though I did notice the BSD install DOH!!!!

pmj...

Yep, that's what I've been thinking - I reckon it would be very useful
(& interesting) to be able to Run Apple Mac OSX on a PC, perhaps more
so than Running WinXP on an Apple?