Links

Here's a list of important programs and documentation that have made the development of PearPC possible:

• HT Editor. The best and most powerful free hex editor, text editor and executable file editor, disassembler and analyser. And more. (Note: I'm a co-developer ;) ).
• Midnight Commander. I couldn't do serious programming on a computer without this program.
• Linux. Contains lots of good but rather undocumented code.
• xnu. Thank you Apple for releasing the source code of the your kernel.
• pem64b.pdf A wonderful document describing the PowerPC instruction set.
• PC-Hardwarebuch, Hans-Peter Messmer, 3. Auflage, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Ten years old but still one of the best hardware books you can find. Maybe the current edition is even better.
• 1275, a lot of resources for those ugly openfirmware things.
• IBM. PowerPC stuff.
• Motorola. PowerPC stuff.
• Bochs An emulator for the x86 architecture.
• MOL, PearPC uses the video.x driver and some ideas from MOL.
• Yaboot A GPL'd boot loader for Macs
• XSkat, it takes a while to boot Mac OS.
• HFS utils used to boot from HFS partitions.
• HFS+ utils used to boot from HFS+ partitions.
• Pagetable, interesting blog about various assembly stuff (trivial, puzzles, rants...)

Other PowerPC emulators

• SoftPear, a different approach for Mac OS X on non PowerPC hardware.
• QEMU, emulates also ARM, Sparc and x86 processors.
• SheepShaver, runs MacOS 7.5.2 thru 8.6.
• Basilisk II, emulates either a Mac Classic (which runs MacOS 0.x thru 7.5) or a Mac II series machine (which runs MacOS 7.x, 8.0 and 8.1), depending on the ROM being used.