DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

CherryOS is a G4 emulator. It claims to allow Windows users to run MacOS X Panther in a virtual machine.

Is this thing real?

Curiously, the screenshots link from the site’s homepage results in a .NET error, indicating that maybe the CherryOS people should have hosted their website on Apache, e.g. running in emulation in a G4 VM on that Windows box.

[news seen at Macintouch, from where it will spread rapidly, if it’s true]

Update: turns out there’s already an open-source solution for running OS X under both Linux and Windows: PearPC. This tends to indicate that the CherryOS is real, at least in the sense that it is possible to emulate PowerPC hardware well enough on an x86 to fool OS X. [Thanks to Sam B. for the tip!]

Update: looks like CherryOS is a scam after all. Macintouch and Slashdot readers cut through the hype. As of this writing, the entire CherryOS site is reporting errors.