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Nathan Mercer wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
> > bambam wrote:
> > > I haven't seen this news posted in this group, MS Virtual PC is
> > > now free-
> > >
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
> > >
> > > About 18MB download.
> > >
> > > What is MS Virtual PC-
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_PC
> > >
> > > What OS will run with this program-
> > >
> > > http://vpc.visualwin.com/
> >
> > Interesting, thanks.
> >
> > I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm running
> > XP. I have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you think the
> > chances are of running that on Virtual PC and then the games?
>
> a good chance especially given how x86 virtualisation compatible VPC
> is
>
> the Virtual PC blog http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/ has a feed
> of games he has tried in VPC
> https://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_gu...gory/8225.aspx
>
> Cheers
> Nathan

Thaks Nathan, will check it out later.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

EMB wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm running
> > XP. I have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you think the
> > chances are of running that on Virtual PC and then the games?
> >
> > Or do I have this all wrong?
>
> It's well possible. I use it for testing software under Win8 on my XP
> box and it does the job.

Cheers, thanks, I'll download it later.
--
Shaun.

~misfit~ wrote:
> EMB wrote:
>> ~misfit~ wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm running
>>> XP. I have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you think the
>>> chances are of running that on Virtual PC and then the games?
>>>
>>> Or do I have this all wrong?
>>
>> It's well possible. I use it for testing software under Win8 on my
>> XP box and it does the job.
>
> Cheers, thanks, I'll download it later.

Also make sure you check out the free VMWare player, there are free third
party tools for creating the virtual machines. I've seen comparison charts
that claim the performance of Virtual PC and VMWare are the same but I've
never managed to get Virtual PC running anywhere near as well as VMWare
*out* *of* *the* *box*. Possible that there are some tweaks required to get
best performance out of it but I can't be bothered

Jerry wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > Windows 98 is no longer supported by Microsoft. Nor will ME by the
> > end of this month.
> >
>
> Why would you need support from Microsoft to run Windows98? I never
> used Microsoft support for it when it was new even.

LOL, good point, same here. However, by "support" I think that fixing of any
vulnerabilities that may be discovered in the future (patches) is being
refered to.

There are bound to be other people who will take over the task though. (Like
Steve Gibson did with his 'XPdite' patch for XP a while back when MS were
tardy in fixing a vulnerability). Anyway, why would hackers/malware writers
bother with an OS that has such a low %age of the market?
--
Shaun.

Nik Coughlin wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
> > EMB wrote:
> > > ~misfit~ wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm
> > > > running XP. I have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you
> > > > think the chances are of running that on Virtual PC and then
> > > > the games? Or do I have this all wrong?
> > >
> > > It's well possible. I use it for testing software under Win8 on
> > > my XP box and it does the job.
> >
> > Cheers, thanks, I'll download it later.
>
> Also make sure you check out the free VMWare player, there are free
> third party tools for creating the virtual machines. I've seen
> comparison charts that claim the performance of Virtual PC and VMWare
> are the same but I've never managed to get Virtual PC running
> anywhere near as well as VMWare *out* *of* *the* *box*. Possible
> that there are some tweaks required to get best performance out of it
> but I can't be bothered

Cool, thanks. It's just something I thought I might play with.
--
Shaun.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:36:42 +1200, Jerry <>
wrote:

>Steve wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:12:36 +1200, GraB wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:33:49 +0000 (UTC), bambam
>>><> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I haven't seen this news posted in this group, MS Virtual PC is now free-
>>>>
>>>>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
>>>>
>>>>About 18MB download.
>>>>
>>>>What is MS Virtual PC-
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_PC
>>>>
>>>>What OS will run with this program-
>>>>
>>>>http://vpc.visualwin.com/
>>>
>>>Is there a version that will run on 98SE? I might be able to get an
>>>old DOS game going, going by the hardware it emulates.
>>
>>
>> Windows 98 is no longer supported by Microsoft. Nor will ME by the end of
>> this month.
>>
>
>Why would you need support from Microsoft to run Windows98? I never
>used Microsoft support for it when it was new even.

Same here.

T'was the Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:33:39 +1200 when I remembered "~misfit~"
<> saying something like this:

>LOL, good point, same here. However, by "support" I think that fixing of any
>vulnerabilities that may be discovered in the future (patches) is being
>refered to.

If you're running it virtually, don't give it network access. Or give
it network access and set your virtual machines to not save any
changes to the disk. It's always fun to play with viruses in
sandboxes.
--
Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:32:36 +1200, ~misfit~ wrote:


> Interesting, thanks.
>
> I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm running XP. I
> have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you think the chances are of
> running that on Virtual PC and then the games?
>
> Or do I have this all wrong?

Just as well Nathan answered your question.
I am like you, a virtual pc virgin.
But not for long, as I find the whole subject very interesting.

bambam wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:32:36 +1200, ~misfit~ wrote:
>
>
> > Interesting, thanks.
> >
> > I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm running
> > XP. I have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you think the
> > chances are of running that on Virtual PC and then the games?
> >
> > Or do I have this all wrong?
>
> Just as well Nathan answered your question.
> I am like you, a virtual pc virgin.
> But not for long, as I find the whole subject very interesting.

Yes, I'm indebted to him. I think it'll be my next plaything, Virtual PC.
Shame the hardware graphics engibe specs are so low though, sorta limits the
later games (that only run on 9 that I can play to pretty dismal
resolutions.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

~misfit~ wrote:
> bambam wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:32:36 +1200, ~misfit~ wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Interesting, thanks.
>>>
>>> I have a couple old games that will only run on 9x but I'm running
>>> XP. I have a licence (or three) for 98SE, what do you think the
>>> chances are of running that on Virtual PC and then the games?
>>>
>>> Or do I have this all wrong?
>> Just as well Nathan answered your question.
>> I am like you, a virtual pc virgin.
>> But not for long, as I find the whole subject very interesting.
>
> Yes, I'm indebted to him. I think it'll be my next plaything, Virtual PC.
> Shame the hardware graphics engibe specs are so low though, sorta limits the
> later games (that only run on 9 that I can play to pretty dismal
> resolutions.
>
> Cheers,

I had it running OK about month ago. XP, duron850, gforece 4mmx, 256ram.
Run sweet. Linux,98se and old games OK but couple old dos games crashed
it. XP stayed running and just shut down VPC. Real good.Tried thr other
free one too and found microsoft one better for my needs. YMMV.


See Ya

bAZZ .. >>
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