Rosetta

[1233666666]

I wouldn't mind using some PPC programs on my Hackintosh. Now, how do I find out if Rosetta is installed and working?

 

I dont see it in System Profiler> Applications. I can, however, run Office for Mac, but I don't know if thats Universal or not.

 

I hear you need SSE3 for Rosetta. I have it in my processor, but System Profiler says otherwise.

Machine Name: Apple Development Platform

Machine Model: ADP2,1

CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 3.7 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB

CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 EST

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 200 MHz

Boot ROM Version: ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1011-004 (Phoenix Technologies, LTD)

 

but when I run cpuz in Windoze it reports that my CPU has SSE3. Oh, and my 3.7Ghz machine is speeding

[theSpam]

Office for Mac is PPC, so Rosetta is working.

[Colonel]

Rosetta works in the background. You don't see it. Rosetta is installed and working on your system.

[1233666666]

Ah. Thanks

[Sabr]

Black Flame, you used the Myzar ISO DVD or something similar right? Don't worry about the SSE3 not showing, that is because the mach_kernel file is patched to emulate SSE3. However, becuase your CPU supports it, it will work properly (despite what System Profiler says ).

 

Oh, and the 3.7 Ghz thing - that's a bug, it says I'm running at 3.0 Ghz, when infact I'm Overclocking my CPU to about 2.4 Ghz.

 

Your installation is fine.

[dripple]

There's another way to find out if your CPU has SSE3 and it is supported (e.g. not "patched away").

 

With nearly all pachted DVD's comes Maxxuss SSE tool, it's an command line tool to control the SSE3 emulator, but unfortunately in different places. Find it and then enter:

./maxxus_sse i

This displays some diagnostic info of the emulator. If your CPU supports native SSE3, all results should be 0 because the emulator has nothing to do:

 

MAXXUSS SSE3 Emulator Diagnostic Tool v1.2

* Version:
MAXXUSS SSE3-Emulator v4.2b-8F1111A
* Features:
FISTTP (Emulation), MOVDDUP (Patch);
HT/Multi-Core supported

* Diagnostic Infos:

  In-use Codeslots = 0
 Full Diagnostic Info = Not Available
 Slots Cleared Counter = 0
Last Invalid Instr = 0	   , 0	   
Last Invalid Instr EIP = 0	   
 Invalid Instr Counter = 0
 Query IRQ Counter = 1
 InvOp IRQ Counter = 0

 

To see the overhead, start it two times:

 

time ./maxxuss_sse b2 (note the time = time1)

and

time ./maxxuss_sse b3 (note also the time = time2)

 

calculate now:

overhead_in_per_cent = ((time2 - time1) / time1) * 100

 

You'll find this information also in the commandline help of maxxuss_sse.

 

 

 

dripple