Windows programs on a PowerPC Machine

Hello, everybody, I have an upgraded Power Mac G4 sawtooth which has seen it's years of use, and never gave up and never will. Although I have intel macs that can do this job, I was wondering if there was a was I can possibly run windows programs right on the desktop's screen seamlessly as if it was running natively. If I remember correctly, Microsoft Virtual PC 6 and 7 for Mac could do this, but it's ancientware, and I can't find anything for it. My G4 sawtooth is more than enough to handle emulation and virtualization, I have done it before using Q, but I, for some reason can't run the windows programs on the desktop as if it was seamlessly running with the system. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
System Specs:
Power Mac G4 Sawtooth A.K.A (PowerMac3,1)
PowerPC 7447a Sonnet Encore ST 1.6Ghz G4
2GB PC-100 SDRAM
Flashed ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP
1.67TB HDD space
23" Dell monitor (Left)
65" Toshiba (Main)
23" Dell monitor (right)
Mac OS X 10.5.8
Firmware version: 4.2.8f1
Serial: XB*LA
Note: The serial number is from the logic board of a completely different G4 sawtooth since I had to get it replaced as the AGP slot failed to work one day.
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