inversed rosetta (transitive QuickTransit (bought out by IBM)

i know im probably getting annoying with my questions, but hey, its the beer talkin. 🙂 gotta love rocky mountain kool-aid!


i read on google about transitives' QuickTransit software, which supposedly could run x86 apps on PowerPC, at near native speed. they had a demo of it running a version of Quake 2 for x86 on a PowerBook G4, and according to that article, you could not tell a difference between the Dell next to it. its the same technology that Rosetta is based on.


I am beginning to see the limitations of this G5, but want to keep it in service as long as I possibly can. was QuickTransit ever released for consumer use? I would be willing to pay for it, within limitations. if it would cost over lets say 100 bucks then screw it haha, i could get a PC and hack it to get better result)


its just starting to get annoying, knowing how powerful this dual core G5 is, yet I am ALWAYS seeing the "not supported on this architecture:" error everywhere I go. even the new version of Skype is Intel only!!


do I have any options other than getting an Intel Mac? (To me, Intel Macs are not true Macs, since any hacker can turn his cheap homebuilt PC into a " Hack Pro" ) and have better performance and less money spent than me.

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2Ghz Dual Core PowerPC G5 4.5GB ram

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 6:10 PM

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Aug 15, 2011 7:11 PM in response to OzziesIronManOffRoad

Not many options since MS bought out VirtualPC & killed it, I do have VPC7 to run XP on my G4s/G5s, but it's quite slow.


As I read it only PowerVM Lx86 for x86is still available, & not sure it works on G5s...


PowerVM Lx86 supports the installation and running of most 32-bit x86 Linux applications on any Power Systems or BladeCenter model with POWER7™ or POWER6™ processors, or IBM Power Architecture™ technology-based IBM BladeCenter blade servers. It creates an x86 Linux application environment running on POWER processor-based systems by dynamically translating x86 instructions to Power Architecture instructions and caching them to enhance performance, as well as mapping x86 Linux system calls to Linux on POWER system calls. Best of all, no native porting or application upgrade is required for running most x86 Linux applications. Imagine the possibilities of having tens of thousands of x86 Linux applications for the industry-leading 2 Power Systems platform! Unleash the Power Systems advantages for your x86 Linux applications:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/editions/lx86/

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