Wired News: Programmer Arben Kryeziu says his controversial CherryOS Mac emulator will be ready for download on November 25.
Speaking by phone from Hawaii on Friday, Kryeziu promised a full commercial version and a free trial. "On the 25th it's going to live up to its promise," he said.
Meanwhile, University of Wisconsin's Dave Schroeder, who has been testing a pre-release version of CherryOS for Wired News, managed to get it running Mac OS X.
Schroeder said CherryOS is clearly based on PearPC, and suffers from all of PearPC's problems: it is slow and incomplete.
But Kryeziu said the pre-release copy tested by Schroeder and is not the real thing.
"It is not CherryOS," he said. "It is a premature CherryOS. Basically, it was a very bad version."
Kryeziu intimated there had been a mix-up, and blamed one of his programmers, who is no longer with the company.
"I fired his ass," Kryeziu said.
Screenshot courtesy Dave Schroeder.
