Any one try to install windows on a mac?

[gooberguy]

Id do it but i have no mac. please dont say "why would any one want to" You too TGPo.

[The village idiot]

Why do you think it would work?

The only ways to do this:

- Run an emulator
- Have the source code so that you can compile it to run on that hardware
- Use a special PCI card that is basically a windows machine on a PCI card

[devinemi83]

Yeah I think there is an emu for running windows on a mac already, I hear reports of the quality of the result going both ways. Some say it works perfectly while other say it falls on its face.


Personally I would kill to see a windows that could be run off a CD entirely. Kinda like knoppix is for linux.

[thayne]

WTF?
That's like washing your car with comet... or jacking off with sandpaper...

[Will Hay]

...or jacking off with sandpaper...

HEY!
Don't knock it until you've tried it!
Will

[housepig]

Personally I would kill to see a windows that could be run off a CD entirely. Kinda like knoppix is for linux.

you know, I could have sworn I saw a method for making a "live" Windows disc... let me see if I bookmarked it when I get home, if I'm not hallucinating I'll post the link.

[ps2daddy]

You can use virtual pc if you want to run office or something like that its works great but if you want to use photoshop or anything ram or processor intensive dont do it! (it will be just enough to drive you bonkers even with a gig of ram)

Also the dvd burning programs wont burn if you use an emulator on the mac. (at least as far as I know)

edit**
This is about your best bet here to put two into one if you want a truly efficient cross-platform machine.


http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story/0,24330,3413988,00.html

[indolikaa]

VirtualPC

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtualpc

[Capmaster]

A long time ago they used to market a "486 on a card" that Mac users could buy so they could run "real" Windows and not some software emulator. There were a lot of friendly jabs at the Mac users at work over that one, like "that's the best thing you can do to make a Mac useful"

[curryman]

Anyone tried to install windows on a mac

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[The village idiot]

BTW, rumor has it that MicroFlaccid has several G5 computers running NT. They are development machines for the new Xbox which will be using the same processor as the G5. That comes from the Mac rumor sites.

I think you can still get P4 PCI boards to go in a Mac.

[curryman]

BTW, rumor has it that MicroFlaccid has several G5 computers running NT

and

Ferrari with 2 star petrol springs to mind

[VCDHunter]

Id do it but i have no mac. please dont say "why would any one want to" You too TGPo.

I did it years ago - utter rubbish. Can't remember why but I do recall that it had something to do with Tomb Raider. It was awful, a software emulator that worked but was sooo slow.

[ps2daddy]

BTW, rumor has it that MicroFlaccid has several G5 computers running NT. They are development machines for the new Xbox which will be using the same processor as the G5. That comes from the Mac rumor sites.

I think you can still get P4 PCI boards to go in a Mac.

Same processor with a specialized kernel set up to run windows only they will be used for designers to make games for the next gen xbox its on the xbox-scene site also.

[The village idiot]

BTW, rumor has it that MicroFlaccid has several G5 computers running NT. They are development machines for the new Xbox which will be using the same processor as the G5. That comes from the Mac rumor sites.

I think you can still get P4 PCI boards to go in a Mac.

Same processor with a specialized kernel set up to run windows only they will be used for designers to make games for the next gen xbox its on the xbox-scene site also.

That would be choice number 2 in my list above. NT is actually fairly easy to make run on all kinds of different platforms. Writing the HAL is the hardest part.

[sterno]

That would be choice number 2 in my list above. NT is actually fairly easy to make run on all kinds of different platforms. Writing the HAL is the hardest part.

NT already runs on older PowerPC hardware, but it doesn't work with the Mac firmware. It ran on RS/6000s. Rumor was that a company had figured out how to modify the firmware to support both NT and Mac OS, but Apple wasn't interested.

[tgpo]

Id do it but i have no mac. please dont say "why would any one want to" You too TGPo.

Me too?

Basically you can't do it, it won't work.

VPC will allow you to emulate a PC and run any flavor of Windows, but for high demand programs it fails more than succeeds. Plus now that Microsoft bought VPC from Connectix a lot of people have talked about new problems that are arising from Microsoft messing with the source.

[SLK001]

I haven't tried to install Windows on a Mac before, but I would like to know if anyone has a faster way to install the anchor chain for the Macs. I use a solid 1.5 inch steel bar that I jab through the front of the monitor and then out the back, then fish a 50-lb test fishing line to use to pull my chain through with. Overall time is about 5 minutes per Mac-anchor conversion.

Does anyone have a better method?

[flaninacupboard]

Yeah, first you must run your chain through RuztBgone to check for bad metals, then you have to split each strand of the chain up. i always put each strand into a different bag, with the bag all labelled up. next you have to turn the strands round, and start feeding them one by one into CHaneM8, this will turn it back into a chain, but made differently. now attach the chain to the mac with MACchaStik, and drop your mac wherver you like.

Oh, don't forget in step one to wear protective eyewear or you would now be blind.

OK, maybe it's not faster, but it provides better QwualaT!!!!!!!!

[lordsmurf]

VPC is great if you know BOTH Mac AND PC ... which normally is the issue (a chair-to-keyboard interface issue).

One of my friends totally screwed up VPC in one day, after I spent 2 getting it to work just right.

[pcexpress-guy]

Can you get a MAC to work on a PC?

[Faustus]

[The village idiot]

Can you get a MAC to work on a PC?

If you could get the source code for the Aqua and Cocoa layers, yes.

[pcexpress-guy]

where would I get that?

I see emulators for Pc running on Mac. I am sure there is a reason why getting a mac to run on Pc won't work. Lack of demand, not possiable or no developement in progress? (or d. all of the above.)

I know microsoft just purchased virtual machine corp... but I think the virtual machines o/s's must work on pc for it to "work" within a virtual machine. So I won't be able to load mac's O/s anytime soon.

anyway... I bet this is funny for the Mac people... "getting a Mac to run on a PC." :P

but is it possiable?

[sterno]

I see emulators for Pc running on Mac. I am sure there is a reason why getting a mac to run on Pc won't work. Lack of demand, not possiable or no developement in progress? (or d. all of the above.)

There's Executor, and I think there are one or two others. One of the problems is that the Macintosh OS has, until recently, been very tightly bound to the proprietary Apple firmware. Now we have "New World" Power Macs, which have the firmware as a file on disk instead of in ROM on the system board. I think there would still be licensing issues, though.

[lordsmurf]

Executor sucks. It's like using OS 5
Linux had some MAC emulators that worked well, but it was beyond me.

[pcexpress-guy]

I know virtual machine can run Linux, I wonder if you could have Linux then have it emulate a MAC. I guess not.