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Arnold 1.7.9

About QEMU, a PPC Mac emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux that can run Mac OS 9.0 up to Mac OS X 10.5 Topics: 264, Posts: 4536 Last post Re: Windows 10-.bat file not. Emulators for early Mac systems (anywhere from 1.0 to 9.x) are relatively simple to set up in OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) or 10.11 (El Capitan), likewise virtual machine software like VirtualBox (all topics for another day). But right now the early, PowerPC versions of OSX seem to be something of an emulation/virtualization dead zone. PearPC 0.4.0 Submitted by Seppel on December 20, 2005 - 15:33, GMT +0100. It took a while but here is finally the long awaited 0.4.0 release. This is the first release with G4 support by Daniel Foesch (you have to enable it in your config).

Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Arnold is an extremely precise Amstrad CPC/CPC+ emulator, which can runjust about all software available for what was without question the besthome computer available in Europe in the 1980s.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 726 Kb

Atari800MacX 5.0.1
This is the the Macintosh OSX Port of David Firth'sFantastic Atari 800 Emulator. Ported is the SDL version of theAtrari800 emulator to Mac OSX, and added a full native Cocoa interface,including Preferences, Menus, File Associations, Help and more.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Mark Grebe
• Modification Date: January 19, 2019
• Requirements: macOS 10.12 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 21.8 MB

Basilisk II 1.0 (2019-09-08)
Basilisk II is an open source emulator of 68xxx-based Macintoshcomputers for Windows, OS X and Linux. With Basilisk II, one can bootMac OS versions 7.x through 8.1. Ports of Basilisk II are available forMac OS X, Windows, Linux and a number of lesser known systems. Usersrequire a Macintosh ROM image and a copy of Mac OS to use with theemulator.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Christian Bauer et al
• Modification Date: May 4, 2019
• Requirements: macOS 10.14 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 1.4 MB

Boycott Advance 0.4.1
Boycott Advance can run the majority of existing Gameboy Advancesoftware to some degree. High quality sound emulation is supported, withmany games sounding as good, if not better, than they do on the realhardware. Having said that, Boycott Advance is not a substitute for thereal hardware. If you want to play Gameboy Advance games, then buy areal Gameboy Advance. A number of hardware devices exist for backing uporiginal Gameboy Advance titles for use on Boycott Advance. Theseinclude the Flash Advance Linker and the XGFlash.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 465 Kb

BSNES 0.6.9
BSNES has a somewhat different purpose to most emulators; it focuses onaccuracy over performance. To that end, it does not include any gamespecific hacks, or idle-loop skipping optimizations commonly found inother emulators. To add to the fun, it uses a cycle accurate hardwareemulation. The net result of all this is the highest system requirementsof any software I've released to date; those without a G5 class machineneed not apply. If you meet the requirements, however, this is the mostaccurate SNES emulation available on the Macintosh platform.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 9, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 1.6 MB

DeSmuME 0.9.11
Nintendo DS Emulator.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: DeSmuME Team
• Modification Date: April 7, 2015
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 1.5 MB

Dolphin 5.0
Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: theGameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these twoconsoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibilitywith all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and evenmore!

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Dolphin Team
• Modification Date: Current
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.10 or higher - 64-bit - The Development versions are the better choice with macOS 10.13 and higher

Download File Size: ~17 MB - Development versions are released every time a developer makes a change to Dolphin, several times every day!

DOSBox 0.74-3
A port of DOSBox, an engine for playing classic and forgotten games for DOS on modern systems.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: DOSBox Team
• Modification Date: June 27, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 4.2 MB

Emulator Enhancer 3.0.1
The Emulator Enhancer plugin adds a number of additional features tomany of the emulators available from this site (bannister.org). Theseinclude:
USB Gamepad and Joystick support
Aspect ratio correction
Bilinear Filtering
Full screen mode
Network game play (preliminary)
Screen Curvature
VBL Synchronised Video
Full instructions on how to use the library can be found in the download package.

• License: Shareware, $30
• Developer/Publisher: Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 30, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 589 Kb

Erockus Arcade 6.8
Erockus ARCADE is an interface app for SDLMAME.
Erockus ARCADE does not actually play games.
Erockus Arcade is designed to simplify the use of SDLMAME.
Erockus ARCADE is not supported nor endorsed by the people behind SDLMAME.
Erockus ARCADE may not work with all versions of SDLMAME.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Eric Richards
• Modification Date: September 25, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.10 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 7.9 MB

Frodo 4.4.1
Frodo is a robust Commodore 64 Emulator for the Macintosh.
Frodo was developed to reproduce the graphics of games and demos withhigher precision than the existing C64 emulators. To that end, Frodo candisplay raster effects correctly that only result in a flickering messwith other emulators. In addition to the precise VIC emulation, Frodofeatures a processor-level 1541 emulation that is able to handle about50% of all fast loaders. There is also a faster 1541 emulation for fourdrives containing .D64, .X64, .T64, or .LYNX files. Sound (SID)emulation is also provided.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 1.4 MB

Genesis Plus 1.3.2
Genesis Plus is a Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for Mac OS X.
Genesis Plus features very accurate emulation of the original SegaGenesis, even to the point that some software which has problems on thereal hardware exhibits the same behaviour under emulation. Thisemulation comes with accurate sound support, saved states, and savedgame support.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 517 Kb

Jum52 1.1.1
Atari 5200 Emulator
Jum52 supports reasonable compatibility with Atari 5200 titles. At thepresent collision detection is a bit hit and miss (no pun intended) butotherwise the emulator is solid enough. High quality sound emulation isprovided.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 391 Kb

KiGB 2.0.6
KiGB is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for Mac OS X.
KiGB features detailed and accurate emulation, which brings with itexcellent compatibility. Support for both Game Genie and Game Sharkcodes is included, as well as extremely high fidelity sound support.KiGB can even emulate the Super Gameboy.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 668 Kb

Mini vMac 36.04
Mini vMac is an open source emulator of 68000 based Macintosh computers.The project's main goal being an accurate emulation of the MacintoshPlus computer. In addition to the Macintosh Plus, variations of MinivMac can emulation the Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, SE and Classicmodels.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Paul C. Pratt
• Modification Date: October 7, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 59emu Kb

Mugrat 0.4.5
For many years now I have been porting emulators by others to MacOS. Mugrat marks my first attempt at writing one of my own, in this caseto emulate the Colecovision.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 30, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 409 Kb

Mupen64Plus 2.5.9
Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which iscapable of accurately playing many games. N64 emulator and plugins forLinux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, and Windows

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Mupen64Plus Team
• Modification Date: February 10, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.8 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 2.7 MB

Nestopia 1.4.2
Nestopia is a Nintendo NES emulator for Mac OS X.
Nestopia is by far the most compatible of any NES emulator for Mac OS X.Using cycle-exact emulation, it is able to run titles that rely onprecise timing, and which therefore break under other emulators. Itsupports five extra sound chips and an astonishing 143 mappers. Thisaccurate emulation comes at a cost; Nestopia requires an 800MHz machinefor full speed; but if you have one, this is the best available NESemulation for Mac.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 1.1 MB

OpenEmu 2.2.1
Retro video game emulation for macOS.
For the first time, the 'It just works' philosophy now extends to opensource video game emulation on the Mac. With OpenEmu, it is extremelyeasy to add, browse, organize and with a compatible gamepad, play thosefavorite games (ROMs) you already own.
This one does it all and in a well done interface. Nintendo, SuperNintendo, Nintendo 64, PlayStaion, Sega Genesis, Atari 2600, Game Boy, PSP etc.and more.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: OpenEmu Team
• Modification Date: January 25, 2020
• Requirements: macOS 10.14 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 43 MB - The experimental version supports MAME

Rainbow 1.5.8
Atari 800 Series Emulator
Rainbow was one of the first emulators available for Macintosh. Despitethis, it has fairly good compatibility with original software. The MacOS X version adds an improved GUI and significantly improved sound tothe original version.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 469 Kb

ScummVM 2.1
ScummVM is not an emulator.
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphicalpoint-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their datafiles. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executablesshipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for whichthey were never designed!
ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft's Simon theSorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 andBroken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit theEarth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM(Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used formany games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Maxand more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving,so check back often.
Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux,Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2,SymbianOS/EPOC and many more..

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: The ScummVM Team
• Modification Date: January 15, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 24.5 MB

SDLMAME 0.214
Command line Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: @roni
• Modification Date: September 25, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.9 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 101.1 MB - SDL Mame 0.214

Download File Size: 5.6 Kb - SDL Runtime Library 2.0.10

Download File Size: 542 Kb - M64 - Application to run SDL MAME without launching the terminal

Remote desktop for mac server. All you need to do is install the TeamViewer client on both machines, enter the ID of the computer you want to connect to and that’s it.There’s very little configuration of ports or firewalls as everything is handled automatically by the setup wizard.Once installed, you simply ask the person you want to connect to for their Partner ID to establish a connection.

SheepShaver 2.5 (2019-09-08)
SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC MacOS run-time environment. Thatis, it enables you to run PowerPC Classic MacOS software on yourcomputer, even if you are using a different operating system. However,you still need a copy of MacOS and a PowerMacintosh ROM image to usethis program. SheepShaver is distributed under the terms of the GNUGeneral Public License (GPL). If you are using a PowerPC-based system,applications will run at native speeds (i.e. without any emulationinvolved). On other systems, SheepShaver provides the first PowerPC G4emulator, though without MMU, to enable the execution of MacOS Classic.Performance with the current CPU emulator using basic just-in-time (JIT)translation techniques is roughly 1/8-th of native speeds.
Features
- SheepShaver runs MacOS 7.5.2 thru MacOS 9.0.4
- PowerPC G4 emulation on non-PowerPC platforms, direct execution otherwise
- Basic but portable JIT engine (x86, x86_64, mips)
- Copy and paste of text between MacOS and the host OS
- File exchange with the host OS via a Unix icon on the Mac desktop
- Color video display with support for run-time resolution switching
- Run-time depth switching from 1 bpp to current host depth settings
- Native QuickDraw 2D acceleration for BitBlt and FillRect operations
- CD-quality stereo sound output
- Networking: SheepShaver supports Internet and LAN networking via Ethernet and PPP with all Open Transport compatible MacOS applications

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Gwenole Beauchesne
• Modification Date: September 8, 2019
• Requirements: macOS 10.14 or higher - 64-bit - If you have an existing SheepShaver setup, you can simply replace the application with the new application

Download File Size: 1.4 MB

SMS Plus 1.3.4
SMS Plus is a Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear emulator for Mac OSX.
The hardware for the Sega Master System and Game Gear consoles is almostidentical from a technical standpoint, which means that when you emulateone, it is trivial to emulate the other. SMS Plus features accurateemulation of both systems, with full sound support. Just like most ofthe other emulators on this site, it can use GZ compressed ROMstransparently.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Ported by Richard Bannister
• Modification Date: March 10, 2018
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 551 Kb

sixtyforce 2.0b1
sixtyforce is an emulator that runs Nintendo 64 games. It does this bydynamically translating the code that a Nintendo 64 uses into somethingyour Mac understands. Nearly every part of a Nintendo 64 has beenpainstakingly recreated entirely out of software to pull off such anamazing feat. Download sixtyforce and try it yourself!

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Gerrit Goossen
• Modification Date: October 10, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.9 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 8 MB

Stella 6.0.2
The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was themost popular home video game system of the early 1980's. Now you canenjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games on your PC thanks to Stella!
Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under theGNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed forLinux by Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release severalpeople have joined the development team to port Stella to otheroperating systems such as AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux,OS/2, MacOS, Unix, and Windows. The development team is working hard toperfect the emulator and we hope you enjoy our effort.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Stella Team
• Modification Date: October 11, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 3.6 MB

VICE 3.1
VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programsintended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates theC64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models, thePLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610/C510). An extra emulator is provided forC64 expanded with the CMD SuperCPU.

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• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: The VICE Team
• Modification Date: March 30, 2017
• Requirements: macOS 10.12 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 86.5 MB

VirtualC64 3.3.2
VirtualC64 emulates a Commodore 64 personal computer on your Macintosh.I started the project in 2006 to create a virtual CPU environment thatcan be used as a demonstrator program in a first or second year ofcomputer technology. Over the years I have added more and more featuresand the accuracy of the emulation has steadily increased. Despite one ortwo compatibility gaps, VirtualC64 is now able to run a large number ofC64 programs without errors.

• License: Freeware
• Developer/Publisher: Dirk Hoffmann
• Modification Date: May 25, 2019
• Requirements: macOS 10.13 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 12.5

Virtual ][ 9.2
Virtual ][ is a program that emulates the vintage Apple ][ computer onyour Macintosh.
Key features:
Emulates the Apple ][, ][+ and //e
Supports USB game pad or joystick
Save a machine and resume later on
Full-screen mode
Epson FX-80 emulation
Realistic soundeffects
Virtual ][ lets you play all the old Apple games, because it supportsall graphics modes, lets you control the game paddles with a USB gamepad or mouse and emulates the internal speaker. When you want totemporarily interrupt gameplay, Virtual ][ allows you to save theentire virtual machine, and continue later on from where you left off.
But Virtual ][ also supports more 'serious' software, because itemulates many peripheral devices: floppy disk, hard disk, mouse, matrixprinter, even cassette tape! It is also able to emulate the Z80Aprocessor, allowing you to run the CP/M operatng system.

• License: Shareware, $44
• Developer/Publisher: Gerard Putter
• Modification Date: September 8, 2019
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher - 64-bit

Download File Size: 38.2 MB

PearPC

Developer(s)	Sebastian Biallas, Stefan Weyergraf, Cassondra Foesch
Initial release	May 10, 2004; 16 years ago
Preview release
Repository
Written in	C++, C, Assembly
Operating system	FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows
Type	Emulator
License	GNU General Public License
Website	github.com/sebastianbiallas/pearpc

PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions of Mac OS X,^[1]Darwin and Linux. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can be executed on Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and other systems based on POSIX-X11. The first official release was made on May 10, 2004.^{[citation needed]}

The emulator features a just-in-time (JIT) processor emulation core which dynamically translates PPC code into x86 code, caching the results. Despite running only on x86 host architectures, the JIT emulation core runs at least 10 times as fast as the architecture-independent generic processor emulation core. However, according to the man pages supplied with Debian's packages of PearPC, even the JIT core runs around 40 times slower than the host machine would if executing native code.^{[citation needed]}

Until December 2005 PearPC advanced quickly in speed, stability and features. After that time, however, there was no new release until July 2011 - five and a half years later. Individuals had also been working on builds with more features such as native CD-ROM support and even progress in emulating sound had begun.^{[citation needed]} Builds including AltiVec emulation to run applications that require a PowerPC G4 processor were also produced, although there were numerous problems (mainly interface glitches) with running Mac OS X Tiger using such builds which were not resolved. Support for graphics acceleration was also worked on, which in theory should provide a major performance boost due to OS X's hardware-accelerated GUI known as Quartz Extreme which is currently not supported in PearPC.^{[citation needed]}

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Shortcomings[edit]

The current official version of PearPC is 0.5.0 (released July 12, 2015). While its PowerPC emulation handles most applications and the emulator already has an impressive feature set, the project still lacks features needed for a complete emulation of the PowerPC experience:

• Sound emulation (there are PearPC sound-test builds on the web, usually called ppc-snd)
• G5 (64-bit PowerPC) emulation
• Apple Disk Image (.dmg) support for use as an image (currently, to use a .dmg image the file must be converted into an ISO image (.iso)
• Mac OS X Leopard support (instead, try using OSx86)^{[citation needed]}

On June 6, 2005, Apple's (then) CEO, Steve Jobs, announced that Apple would begin switching their computers' architectures from IBM's PowerPC to Intel's x86 platform. The transition was completed in August 2006. The news raised a lot of questions about the future of the PearPC project, because although the project itself is a PowerPC emulator, it is used primarily to run Mac OS X on x86 machines. As Mac OS X can now be run natively on the x86 platform, including on non-Apple computers (albeit in contravention of the Mac OS X license agreement), interest in PearPC has waned since and attention now largely centers on running Mac OS X natively on x86 hardware or in virtualization software such as VMware Workstation.^{[citation needed]}

Frontends[edit]

PearPC currently lacks its own GUI — the 'Change CD' button found in early versions has been eliminated because it rarely functioned correctly. However, developers have made frontends for the program. Two of these are PearGUI, which looks like a Mac OS X application but is incompatible with current versions of PearPC, and PearPCCP (short for 'PearPC Control Panel'), which is compatible with PearPC 0.3 and newer. PearGUI's incompleteness annoys many users and its 'Create Disk Image' feature is not yet complete (a severe shortcoming), but many users have praised its GUI. PearPCCP has a built-in configuration wizard in addition to other advanced features, but is hindered by what many users believe to be an inferior interface and several bugs. Some users also report that PearPCCP removes comments from configuration files, while PearGUI does not. The PearPC.net website also released its own Java-based PearPC-GUI, called APE, which is part of the PearPC.net Package. CherryOS is alleged to be simply a front-end for PearPC. Its website was shut down in May 2005.^{[citation needed]}

CherryOS controversy[edit]

Within five months of PearPC's release, another PowerPC emulator called CherryOS appeared, claiming to offer more features and greater speed. However, within hours of its announcement, questions were raised about the claims, with many experts and open-source advocates suggesting that CherryOS was nothing more than a repackaging of PearPC. The CherryOS Emulator was re-released in March 2005 as a commercial product. According to Cassondra Foesch, a principal author of PearPC, it still contained all or part of the code written for the PearPC Project. CherryOS also created questions regarding the legality of commercial software developed and marketed specifically for the purpose of running Mac OS on the x86 architecture, since Apple's license agreement specifically states that the operating system may only be installed on Apple-labeled computers. Eventually, the distribution of CherryOS ceased due to the very high amount of criticism that had been directed at it.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, although CherryOS supports native CD-ROM installation, the emulator itself runs a bit slower than PearPC does, even though it claims to run three times faster than PearPC.^{[citation needed]}

Emulated hardware[edit]

CPU:

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• PowerPC G3, or PowerPC G4

Ethernet:

• 3Com 3C905C^[2]
• Realtek 8139^[3]

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References and notes[edit]

1. ^It cannot run Mac OS X v10.0 nor Mac OS X v10.5 and later. (See 'PearPC'.).
2. ^pearpc-0.4.tar.bz2: pearpc-0.4/src/io/3c90x/3c90x.cc
3. ^pearpc-0.4.tar.bz2: pearpc-0.4/src/io/rtl8139/rtl8139.cc

External links[edit]

Pearpc Emulator Software

• Official website
• PearPC on SourceForge.net

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