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Can Bochs run OS X as a guest OS?

Simple question: Will OS X (Hackintosh, Unibeast configured to run on a "generic PC platform") work on the Bochs x86 PC emulator? Regardless of terms or rules, does it work? Can anyone confirm it?
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Can one make a Macbook behave like a USB-Drive

Is there a Way to emulate an usb-drive with a Macbook? I do not mean to emulate usb drives on my macbook! I would like to plug a double usb cable to my macbook and e.g. my TV. I want the TV to think ...
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How to make a Terminal (running in an Atari ST emulator on a Mac) talk to a Telnet BBS?

There are a number of Atari ST BBSes still running today, available via Telnet. I connect to some of these occasionally using SyncTerm on my Mac. It would be even better to use an ATARI Terminal ...
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Emulating a Serial Device on OS X

I have been working with building Microcontroller (mostly Arduino) based devices for the past few months and have been quite surprised by the seeming lack of any form of serial emulation. I know ...
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Running old Windows game with 2 CDs on Mac OS X

There is an old Windows game that comes on 2 CDs. It works such that when you reach a certain point in the game, it will prompt you to insert the second CD to continue. I have a friend who would like ...
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Can I run Mac software on Windows?

Is there a way to run Mac software without using a virtual machine? Note: Though there is this question, it is pretty outdated; the update, while more recent, does not actually answer that question.
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Emulate older Mac on Snow Leopard

My application development team wants to test program builds on older MacOS X versions (10.4 and 10.5). Is there an emulator or virtual system capable of allowing this from inside our MacOS 10.6? I'...
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how to install Mac OS X on your Windows PC using PearPC?

how to install Mac OS X on your Windows PC using PearPC? Anyone have achieve this before?
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Any way to run older versions of OS X on newer Macs? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Installing Tiger on a Snow Leopard MacBook I would like to be able to run OS X 10.3 for the purposes of software testing on a modern (x86) Mac. I'm aware of emulators such as ...
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netem for Mac OS X to emulate network latency and dropped packets

I'm looking for an open source/free network emulator tool that I could use on Mac OS X, to simulate a slow network connection, limited bandwidth and other network characteristics such as dropped ...
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PowerPC emulator for Windows/Mac OS X capable of running Mac OS 8.1

I have an old Mac OS 7 application written in Symantec Think C++ 8 which I'd like to resurrect. I can run my old Mac OS 8.x image on Basilisk II exactly as it was at the time of development, ...
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Is it possible to run a Windows executable in Mac OS X?

Is there some sort of emulator or software layer that will let me run Windows executables (exe) in Mac OS X 10.5? I am not looking for Boot Camp or Parallels or any OS virtualization. I want ...
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Using a hypercard file on a Windows machine

my parents were cleaning out their house and found an old Mac Classic which I used a long time ago to run HyperCard. I made a couple things which I'd like to keep but I don't know what appliations ...
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Remapping the Windows key in Parallels

I'm running XP on Parallels 4 for Mac, and it's working well enough, however one thing that's bothering me more and more as I go along is the way it constantly assumes every press of the command key ...
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Any Way to run Mac OSX software under Windows?

I know that you cannot run MacOSX within a virtual machine, but I am curious if there is something similar to WINE that emulates MacOSX enough to allow running some MacOSX software under Windows. ...
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