Free 68k (680x0) and PowerPC (PPC) Macintosh Emulators Listed on this page are Macintosh emulators: some of them emulate a 68k Macintosh (such as what you get in the Macintosh Quadra, Performa, Classic, etc), others emulate a PowerPC Macintosh. Note that if you are using a 68k Mac emulator and wish to run Mac OS (such as System 7.5.5, etc), you will need to have a real Mac around somewhere since such systems require you to have a Mac ROM. (the various emulators usually provide you with instructions on how you can make a copy of the ROM from your real Mac). At present, I know of no software emulator that can emulate an Intel x86 Macintosh or to run OS X in a virtual machine on a PC. Note: if you are looking for an emulator or virtual machine that runs on a Mac and allows you to emulate a PC, running operating systems like Windows, you should try the page instead. If you prefer the features, speed and completeness of support of a commercial software, try looking at and Skip directly to [ ] [ ] Related Pages • • - emulate a PC to run multiple OSes • • • • • • Free PowerPC (PPC) Mac Emulators QEMU supports the emulation of x86 processors, ARM, SPARC and PowerPC. Host CPUs (processors that can run the QEMU emulator) include x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc32, ARM, S390, Sparc64, ia64, and m68k (some of these are still in development).

Emulators for early Mac systems (anywhere from 1.0 to 9.x) are relatively simple to set up in OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) or 10.11 (El Capitan), likewise virtual machine software like VirtualBox (all topics for another day). Skype for business add in outlook 2013 on mac. Additional info: I believe Linux on PowerPC is probably the better OS choice here, since emulating a MAC environment is likely to break license. I guess QEMU is also more up-to-date and supported than PearPC. Adobe pdf reader for mac free download.

When emulating a PC (x86), supported guest operating systems include MSDOS, FreeDOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Linux, SkyOS, ReactOS, NetBSD, Minix, etc. When emulating a PowerPC, currently tested guest OSes include Debian Linux. SoftPear is a compatibility layer that allows you to run Mac OS X on PC (x86) hardware. It works by dynamically recompiling Mac programs (including Mac OS X) into x86 binary code that runs on your PC, and adding a layer that translates things like endianness. This is essential a virtual machine that allows you to run Mac OS as well as Mac OS X on top of a Linux host system that runs on a PowerPC computer. Supported host CPUs include the PowerPC 603, 604, G3 and G4. It also allows the use of AltiVec in the Guest OS if the CPU supports it.

At the time this was written, only PCI devices (hard disks, USB drives, CDROM and DVD drives, etc) that do not use DMA are natively supported. SheepShaver allows you to run classic MacOS applications on BeOS and Linux. It includes a PowerPC emulator which is used if you are using a non-PPC system. It supports MacOS 7.5.2 to 8.6 as the guest operating system, a colour display, internet and LAN networking via Ethernet, serial drivers, SCSI Manager emulation, file exchange with the host OS, access to floppy disks, CD-ROMs, HFS(+) partitions on hard disks, sound, etc. PearPC emulates a PPC (PowerPC) Macintosh, allowing you to run Darwin PPC, Mac OS X and Linux in the emulated machine. Supported hosts include Windows and Linux (and possibly other Unix-type systems).