Laptop Emulation Help (Windows emulation on Ubuntu 10.10 PPC)

[Orthone]

So a few days ago my dad asked me if I wanted to have a Mac PowerBook G4 laptop, I said sure because I had wanted to use it to take to school to be able to work on my game, Tweed. I instantly un-installed the Mac OS and installed Ubuntu 10.10 PPC. (PowerPC, the type of hardware makes it need special software. =/ ) Does anybody know how I would be able to emulate Win98 or better on this piece of stuff laptop? I've been doing a lot of research, but I keep coming up with nothing that helps.

Also, anybody who wants to say "OLOLOL MAC, DATS UR PROBLEEM!!!1", forget off, I got it for free. I would have chosen a newer non-PPC laptop if I had the choice.

I figured I would give the forums a shot at it before I destroy it out of rage.

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[Wedge]

Try running Windows in QEMU or bochs. DOS programs will run fine in DOSBox.

[Coolio]

I haven`t used PPC, but Qemu should work.

[Coolio]

Double post, but yes. You can install XP (Not sure about other OSes, but they should work) via QEMU.

[Orthone]

Yeah, I came up with QEMU a few times but I had no clue how to even install it, fairly new to Linux. I think I figured it out. Thanks for the help you two.

[Flaw]

Use WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator).



If you want to install it from terminal, use:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3.
or
sudo su
apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install wine1.3.

[Orthone]

Use WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator).



If you want to install it from terminal, use:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3.
or
sudo su
apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install wine1.3.

That's what I would prefer to use, but Wine isn't supported for the PowerPC computers. At least not that I could find.