MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Best PPC Mac emulator?

> What's the best way to run a Classic Mac OS PPC binary on a Windows machine these
> days?

For now, probably QEMU or SheepShaver. The old PearPC is basically obsolete.

A blog post about QEMU:
https://jamesbadger.ca/2018/11/07/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu/

SheepShaver tutorial:
https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_setup

Some guy with some thoughts (although he was also looking at 68K Mac):
https://invisibleup.com/articles/30/

The Emaculation forums are still considered a go-to place for People With Thoughts.
https://emaculation.com/forum/index.php

QEMU is more "low-level", SheepShaver is a bit more "high level" - something to consider depending on your target specs and desired compatibility.

To keep an eye on: MAME (formerly: MESS), and DingusPPC, both targeting "even lower" low-level emulation - MAME considerably lower level than most others.
https://www.mamedev.org
https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc

> Does MESS do PowerPC Macs?

Technically, although it's rather early days for it, emulation is still considered "preliminary". For example, OG recently added CD-ROM support for it, but it's not yet working. Six months ago, R. Belmont fixed the video during boot. So it's coming along slowly.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commits/master/src/mame/drivers/macpdm.cpp

Also, it would be considered MAME, not MESS.

- Stiletto