Running windows programs on a power mac g5

Hi i have a power mac g5 and was wondering if there was any way that i could run windows programs on it. I noticed that there was a program called parralle boot? But as i am awear you need to have an intel mac to make this work. Is there any way to make this happen for me?

Virtual PC (from Microsoft) was the way to run Windows on a PowerPC Mac. It did it by emulation, so it's not as fast as the current +virtual machine+ options, such as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion on Intel Macs. It should work reasonably well on a Power Mac G5, but it will still be slow compare to running Windows on a real Intel PC.
Microsoft no longer offers Virtual PC for Mac, but it is available from retailers if you search online. The last version was 7, and you can download updaters to update any version 7 release to 7.0.3.

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