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Mac cd-rom on a PC?

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Name: Wi-Tiger
Date: May 5, 2004 at 22:44:53 Pacific
OS: Xp
CPU/Ram: 1.3/384
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Hello I recently bought some used Mac educational cd roms (MAC-HFS) and would like to use them on my PC. Once I installed the disk in my drive it only shows the name and how many mb it is. It will not run on my pc. Is there a way I can run/view it just like if I got a cd-rom for win95 or NT I could go to properties and select "run this prog in compalibility for..."
Any suggestions?

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Name: Sandman
Date: May 5, 2004 at 23:40:13 Pacific
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See if this will help
http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/HFVExplorer/

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Response Number 2
Name: k_semler
Date: May 6, 2004 at 03:40:18 Pacific
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You will only be able to run the programs on your x86 based PC if you have purchased programs that will run on MacOS 8.1 on a 680x0 processor. TO do this, you will need to setup Basilisk II, and install MacOS 8.1. This will actually create a virtual machine on your system. It is just like VMWare, only it emulates a 680x0 processor instead of an Ix86 processor. You can also install FuaionPC 3.0 on DOS, and boot directly into MacOS 8.1 on the virtualised machine by putting it in your autoexec.bat file. Note that by doing this, you will have a virtual Macintosh machine. For optimum usage, I reccomend emulating a 68040 processor, and use a LC III ROM. If the CD is for any OS above 8.1, and requres a PPC processor, you must run it on a Macintosh, as no PPC emulator exists currently.

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