CherryOS Mac emulator for Windows XP slated for November 25th release

“A free trial of the controversial CherryOS Mac emulator will be available for download Nov. 25, according to a statement on Maui X-Stream’s website. ‘As a direct result of the overwhelming response to our Oct. 12 announcement, and in order to provide current and future customers with the timely service and attention such high-volume demand requires, MXS has chosen to extend the beta development for CherryOS,’ the site says,” Leander Kahney reports for Wired News.

“It continues: ‘MXS will provide a free trial download of the CherryOS software, in addition to the purchase download on Nov. 25, 2004.’ According to Maui X-Stream, CherryOS will allow Mac OS X to run on Windows XP machines with unprecedented ease and speed. But the software has been shrouded in controversy: Many believe it is a rip-off of PearPC, an open-source Mac emulator that isn’t particularly fast or easy to use,” Kahney reports.

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Sorry, but these ‘delays’ and the volume of vapor in the air have my Spider-Sense tingling. To quote a great author, “It has an odor of over-ripe fish”.

We’ll see…