Q: How does Virtual PC to run games and what not compared to a P4 or AMD? I do not really know anything about the virtual PC and all the limitations?
Best Answer: Luckily You're using an OS that uses a standalone DOS that can be copied into the virtual machine very easily.
Create the Virtual machine (I'd use Virtual PC2007 – free dload from Microsoft.com), and set it up with a maximum hard drive of 1.8gigs. I'd use 1.8 just for performance reasons with W95, but it will allow a partition up to 2gigs.
Then just plug in the W95 drive eithe as a secondary to the system drive, or as an external USB with a cable, and copy those files into a folder under WinXP. There will also be some hidden files, and make sure that Your VMachine is a FAT16 partition for Win95, FAT32 was used until Win98.
If it's possible to do right now, under the working Win95 machine, create a bootable folppy disk while You still can, it will make setting the hidden files to make the partition bootable a matter of 2 typed commands.
After You've set up the VMachine, You'll still be able to use all the features of XP without having to dual-boot a system.
Enjoy!! …
Good Luck!.
Re:It's pretty slow… I think on a 700 mhz Ibook it would be workable (Pentium 1 speeds), but you should have a bunch of ram available.
Re:i dont think there's a trial version….i went thru the connetix site and didnt see anything offering to me to test…
thanks tho,
-t
Re:Doesn't VPC have a trial edition? I know VMWare does, but that doesn't help you as it's x86 only.
Re:hows the performance of running windows based applications thru virtual PC? i have an 700mhz ibook that i need to run some financial software on, and it only works in windows environments….so i'm either going to have to try virtual pc 6 with windows XP ($200) or buy a PC based laptop to run my programs from ($1100)….i'm leaning towards the cheaper of the two obviously, but i dont want to throw my $200 away to find out the performance of the product wont be adequate.
thanks!
t
Re:Virtual PC attempts to create an "emulated" or "virtual" PC completely through software. Vital components of a PC that don't exist on a Mac's motherboard are instead recreated in RAM. The drawback is that running a "virtual" chip in RAM is much slower than using a real chip.
There is no 3D video acceleration, since it would make the emulator completely useless in terms of speed. Even the fastest Mac emulating a PC equipped with only a 4MB SIS (?) video card will be lucky to achieve Pentium II speeds. Real world performance of Virtual PC is closer to a midrange Pentium I computer.
So while you might be able to play a few games using Virtual PC, most modern games using any type of 3D images won't work at all. The few games that do work, will run at a completely unusable (slow) speed.
Hope this helps!
Re:as far as I'm aware virtual PC does not allow for hardware video acceleration which would immediatly make it a bad platform for games.
-Spy
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