I'm sure any PearPC fan has heard of CherryOS, the commercial PowerPC emulator that was supposed to be faster and better than PearPC and was supposed to provide usable virtualization. Well, the company that made it (Maui-X-Stream) had to shut down shortly after they released a public trial of CherryOS because of numerous reports that CherryOS was built on PearPC with some slight mods.

You can see that story here

CherryOS seemed to have been wiped off the internet but a few copies survived. Well anyway, I managed to find a copy of CherryOS on the internet. The time limited trial of CherryOS can be downloaded here. The download is slow (around 15 Kbps) but it works

Note to staff: This is not illegal. The mentioned download does not include any *cough* cracks or keygens *cough*, just the unmodified public release. CherryOS is now considered abandonware.

What are your experiences with CherryOS?

Yeah, I used to use PearPC before osx86.
I could never find CherryOS online.
Thanks man!

PS
I wish this forum had a rep system. That would be kinda neat.

EDIT1:
Could there be a bbcode thing so that it would make the text all weird looking when you use:
[cough]w@rez[/cough]

What would be the purpose of this? I mean, why anyone would want to try an old, outdated (real PearPC got updated recently) and amoral software that has no real usage? I mean, running PearPC had some sense when Marklar was nothing but a rumor (which I did), but these days?

lol, again with cherryOS, it's old and it was just a pearpc copy with few mods here and there. that idiot even forgot to delete pearpc's artworks, iirc the binary was something like 80-90% identical to pearpc's.
sure it's a piece of history

ahhhh that remembers me good old times @emaculation

Ah..history There is, sort of. If you go view someones profile, theres a star rating thing on the left where you can rate the person out of 5 and see their overall rating Updated? I don't see no update See the PearPC home page at pearpc.sourceforge.net and you see in the news that the latest release is 0.4, and its been that way for a very long time. If what you mean by 'update' is PearPC 0.5pre-snd, well that's not an official release. Just a release from the community.

Even if that's not an offical release, it's an update. But that's not the point, the point is that CherryOS is just a piece of useless crap. And that remains whether PearPC is updated or not.

I agree that CherryOS is useless junk that serves no purpose but its HISTORY Just something fun to try if you have nothing else to do.

lol this is the second time its surfaced,

thanks for sharing


but its still sh*t =D

@ pcwiz: (I don't mean this in a bad way) Someone must have a lot of time on their hands, eh?

@bwhsh8r,

You're welcome and yes its true, its useless junk but still its fun to see how dumb people can be with their software. Selling open source software for $50 under a new name. Can't go lower than that

@MoC,

You seem to have a lot of time on your hands replying to this thread jk jk

CherryOS has actually worse performance than PearPC.

And if you want a frontend for PearPC, just get PearPC community edition, which comes with JPE, a front-end programmed in Java.

Can't find one called "PearPC Community Package". Where do I get it? I did find this however which is almost exactly the same:

http://pearpc.net/pearpc_net_package.php

Is that what you mean?

Ah yes, that's what I mean.

I think it mentioned a "community" somewhere on the site and I got confused.

But yeah, that's the one.

Yeah, it uses a Java interface and it works well but its still pretty buggy.

true, but it's still a heck of a lot better than CherryOS.

i've tried it and cant even get it to work.

but for pear pc toy have to have like a super computer just to get power pc no g3 or g4 just power pc performance

lol, but cherryos is funny, because it still has alot of the opensource copyrights n {censored} in it, they didnt even bother or think of removing that stuff XD

Yeah, I lmao'd a couple of years ago...

Oh and BTW, I think updates to PearPC have come to a halt, there has been no news in like 3 years and the only new release was PearPC 0.5pre-snd which isn't even an official release, just something that the pearpc.net community made. I think the updates have stopped because of Apple's switch to Intel.

That Gwenole site should have recent updates...

What "Gwenole" site? :confused:

I thought that was sheepshaver?

~pcwiz: http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/

That site only has Basilisk II info and SheepShaver, no PearPC

last update / news for pearpc is dated : Submitted by Seppel on December 20, 2005 - 15:33, GMT +0200.


and the site is http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

I think the last time I used PearPC/CherryOS I was running it on an AMD Athlon K7 running at 950 MHz. If you think it's painful to run Vista on computer less than 2 GHz then you're officially a n00b.

I think I am gonna have to look into this, looks like something fun to try.