If I remember correctly, I have an old version of VirtualPC somewhere, if that might be a better option. So if I understand correctly, WINE will not work on a PowerPC Mac as it does on an INTEL Mac and I could use it only in combination with a CPU emulation like Q?!įurthermore there seems to be Q or Qemu, which seems to emulate a guest PC and therefore needs an installation/license for Windows (and maybe more ressources?) VirtualPC.

Wine Is Not a (CPU) Emulator, nor does it include Older Macs using PowerPC processors are incompatible with codeĬompiled for x86 (Intel and AMD) processors, unless the code is run I already found the PowerPC section in the WINE project, see PowerPC Mac, but I don't fully understand which options do exist in my case and which should be the best one. MintPPC ), to have a more recent OS, if that would help or make any difference…) Darwine If your Mac is slow, try upgrading your RAM. WARNING: The performance of your Windows XP VM vastly depends on your Mac's hardware/RAM. (I had also considered to install Linux on the machine (e. For the best results, make sure Q is the only application running or Windows XP will slow down. Or is there something like WINE which lets me install the. With PowerPC’s, the Windows software program runs slowly because it still needs to use an emulator. What is the best way to run Windows Software on this old Mac? Windows on Mac (DOS, Windows XP and Vista) Even from a long time ago, different companies have been contesting to come up with a program that can make Windows work on Mac.I'd like to give it to my son, but he likes (among others) to use learning games/software, which are made for Windows (.exe). I have an old PowerBook G4 12' with 1,25 GHz and 786 MB RAM, actually MacOS X 10.4.11 is installed.

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