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Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a PC in
order to use software written for the Mac?

Many thanks in advance.

yes... there is "pear pc" http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/
and an older program that vanished called "cherry os"

also there is a way to run a mac os in Vmware if you the find the disk image
on the internet somewhere.

Have in mind that you have to own a copy of the os in order to do this...
and is terribly slow....it crawls on a pc..

also there are older emulators that can run mac 8.0, again you will have to
look
around the P2P networks to find these


"Charlie" <> wrote in message
news:ds7l4v$s72$...
> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a PC in
> order to use software written for the Mac?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>

In article <ds7l4v$s72$>, Charlie
<> wrote:

> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a PC in
> order to use software written for the Mac?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>

If you are talking about modern Mac software (since 2001 or so), then
you might be able to use it under Darwin.

Darwin is Apple's participation in open-source. I don't know what it
will allow you to do, but it gives a lot of options, and of course
there are many programmers that have built interesting projects for it.

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

Mitch wrote:
> In article <ds7l4v$s72$>, Charlie
> <> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a PC in
>> order to use software written for the Mac?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
> If you are talking about modern Mac software (since 2001 or so), then
> you might be able to use it under Darwin.
>
> Darwin is Apple's participation in open-source. I don't know what it
> will allow you to do, but it gives a lot of options, and of course
> there are many programmers that have built interesting projects for it.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

I don't know if it is still made,but there was a product called
"Macdrive" which enabled conversion either way.It was also possible to
download a trial version for free.

Mitch wrote:
> In article <ds7l4v$s72$>, Charlie
> <> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a PC in
>> order to use software written for the Mac?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
> If you are talking about modern Mac software (since 2001 or so), then
> you might be able to use it under Darwin.
>
> Darwin is Apple's participation in open-source. I don't know what it
> will allow you to do, but it gives a lot of options, and of course
> there are many programmers that have built interesting projects for it.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

Macdrive is still around-made by "Mediafour" and costs $59.95 retail or
$49.95 download version.

Fred Nurke wrote:
> Mitch wrote:
>> In article <ds7l4v$s72$>, Charlie
>> <> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a
>>> PC in order to use software written for the Mac?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>> If you are talking about modern Mac software (since 2001 or so), then
>> you might be able to use it under Darwin.
>>
>> Darwin is Apple's participation in open-source. I don't know what it
>> will allow you to do, but it gives a lot of options, and of course
>> there are many programmers that have built interesting projects for it.
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
>
> I don't know if it is still made,but there was a product called
> "Macdrive" which enabled conversion either way.It was also possible to
> download a trial version for free.

Just checked "Mediafour" website - its $59.95 retail or $49.95 download
version.

In article <>, Fred Nurke
<> wrote:

> Mitch wrote:
> > In article <ds7l4v$s72$>, Charlie
> > <> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Macintosh emulation on a PC in
> >> order to use software written for the Mac?
> >>
> >> Many thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > If you are talking about modern Mac software (since 2001 or so), then
> > you might be able to use it under Darwin.
> >
> > Darwin is Apple's participation in open-source. I don't know what it
> > will allow you to do, but it gives a lot of options, and of course
> > there are many programmers that have built interesting projects for it.
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
>
> I don't know if it is still made,but there was a product called
> "Macdrive" which enabled conversion either way.It was also possible to
> download a trial version for free.


I thought MacDrive was just for reading Mac storage devices;
the OP wanted to run a program.

Some other tools a search turned up:
Emulators
Basilisk
Executor
vMac