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[Zakhal]

Virtual PC is commercial. Id suggest getting it from ebay for little cheaper. It acts like a second computer inside your own, it even has its own bios. You can install almost any operating system on it. Theres a 45-day trial if you wanna try it:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc...oads/trial.mspx

[Rogue]

You need very fast PC to be able to use Virtual PC. And even then you'll expiriance lags.

Just get your self some old computer with windows 98 and use DOS-Mode for DOS games.

[Petter1979]

I chosed "Other"

I have a old pentium 133Mhz with a sound blaster awe64 value PCI soundcard, that i play the dosgames with.

[punch999]

why did you even vote if you dont use a emulator? I use dosbox with the d-fend front end

[Rogue]

He might use Emulators for some other emulation like some others around here...

[vipin]

Originally posted by Anubis@Aug 5 2005, 02:47 AM
You need very fast PC to be able to use Virtual PC. And even then you'll expiriance lags.

Just get your self some old computer with windows 98 and use DOS-Mode for DOS games.

I have Windows XP SP2, Pentium 4 1.8 GHz and 512 MB of RAM. I hope these are sufficient for a satisfactory performance. On Microsoft's webpage these requirements are written:-

Processor: Athlon®, Duron®, Celeron®, Pentium® II, Pentium III, or Pentium 4
Processor speed: 400 MHz minimum (1 GHz recommended)
RAM: Add the RAM requirement for the host operating system that you will be using to the requirement for the guest operating system that you will be using. If you will be using multiple guest operating systems simultaneously, total the requirements for all the guest operating systems that you need to run simultaneously.
Available disk space: To determine the hard disk space required, add the requirement for each guest operating system that will be installed.
Other: Level-2 cache and CD-ROM required
Virtual PC 2004 runs on: Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

[Zakhal]

Originally posted by Anubis@Aug 4 2005, 01:47 PM
You need very fast PC to be able to use Virtual PC. And even then you'll expiriance lags.

Ive read about that and that was my original reason not to try it. But then when I did there was no lag at all. It runs even heavier games like earthsiege2+starsiege with plenty of speed and max graphics. Actually I havent even seen a game yet where it would lag.

(My computer is althlon 64 3000+, 1 gig of memory single bandwith 333MHz)

[Rogue]

I had bad lags on P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of memory.

Zakhal,
I will try that as soon as I got new computer at home. At the moment I have VPC only on my laptop for work.

[Rinforzando]

I voted for DOSbox, although I haven't tried any other emulator, so I can't really judge.

Also, why does everyone have these front-ends for DOSbox, what do they do that's so great, and am I the only one not to have one? :blink:

[The Fifth Horseman]

I don't use a frontend either. I just prefer to set up the things the ol' fashioned way, like in the good times when my 486 was still working ().