The PearPC wish list thread @ PearPC.net

[Jackal05]

I would first try to run some video on ppc, then post this.
Right now there are higher priorities such as a faster pearpc, sound emulation, and native CD support (just one of the major goals). So you're going to have to stay tuned until future releases.
Of course if they finish sound emulation and accomplish faster speeds you could alway get a bit dirty and burn an ISO or something of your project, transfer it to the PC, and burn it from your PC.

[Guest]

I tryed playing some movies in quicktime and doing some transitions with iMovie, and it wasn't too bad...

Playing the quicktime movie went about 20 or so frames per second (a guess) because I could only see slight flickering...

But playing the transitions from iMovie were Much slower, more like a slide show...

I was running 0.3pre on a Athlon XP 2600 with 256 Ram for mac (512 host), but I st=uck the screen res at abpout 1300*768 (or whatever the ACTUAL numbers are...

thewer ;)

[Jackal05]

Actually, iDVD should and will work with other drives, the problem is -- even if you get everythng together -- PearPC does not support native CDs, meaning you cannot burn it. But I'm sure there is a way around this to somehow save it as an iso or something and later burn it on windows. I don't know.

[Jackal05]

Couldn't you at least open a new topic?
Anyways, consider the following my christmass wishlist
-> Sound emulation
-> Easier networking
-> Faster emulation
-> Firewire and USB support
-> Native CD support
-> A bootable version that can be booted into when turning on the computer (use of grub for multi-booting)

I'm sure most of these are already priorities and are being planned.

[Guru3]

[quote="Jackal05":b9f9f71744]
Easier networking
[/quote:b9f9f71744]It's not a matter of making it easier- it's already pretty easy. It's more a matter of making it fool proof. Because of all the different versions of OpenVPN for example, it's just confusing, but I wouldn't saay that it needs to be easier.

[prasys]

Yeah , its pretty easy to network it...

Well , emulating CD-Burner/DVD-Burner would be hard...

Firstly , they should try to fix Video issues and other common issues. Thats all

[Thoreaux]

[quote="Guru3":da330af82f]
It's not a matter of making it easier- it's already pretty easy.
[/quote:da330af82f]
For gurus, perhaps. But the fact that you personally find it easy is irrelevant.

If you look at commercial virtual machine software like Virtual PC and VMWare, setting up networking there is simply a case of ticking a box in the configuration screen - and it automatically works with firewalls, routers, dialups, basically whatever your configuration.

Reading the forums here, I see people installing OpenVPN (whatever that is) to get at something called a TAP driver (ditto), fiddling around with bridging (ditto), NAT (ditto), and proxies (ditto), changing IP address settings (ditto)... I'm sorry, but to the average computer user, [b:da330af82f]this is not easy[/b:da330af82f].

Commercial emulators are easy to configure, PearPC (like similar OSS projects like coLinux) is not easy to configure. That is a simple statement of fact, not a criticism. I deduce that easy networking is difficult to program, which is fine. I'm not demanding it be made easier, because I know I have no right to demand anything from people who are already giving up their free time to write this wonderful program for free. But I certainly don't want to see "easy networking" taken off the TO DO list because the experts mistakenly think that everyone finds this stuff as easy as they do.