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Geek Culture / MS Virtual PC for Free

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trogdor
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Location: Portsmouth, VA, USA
Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 15:03
MS Virtual PC is a free download now...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

I wonder if its faster than DosBox? and where are my Dos floppies at???
Dazzag
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 18:58
Cool. I used DosBox to try and run Div a while back. Worked, just was slow and had issues. The MS Virtual PC trial at the time was brilliant. Div worked great (on my old rubbish 700mhz laptop in XP too) on it.

Whats with MS giving lots of stuff away for free these days? I mean is this the full product that cost quite a bit if I remember rightly.

Cheers

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PowerSoft
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Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 19:27
It is, saw it about 2 weeks ago. Also MS Virtual Server IIRC is being given away.

dab
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 19:55
Yah, I tried installing Vista on it, but I'm having trouble with it. I'll try later in my life though.

CattleRustler
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 21:18
MS VPC didnt have the greatest dos support tbh, and it doesnt stack up to well overall against VMWare, imho. Dosbox is cool for what it does. For non-dos virtual stuff I use VMWare. Neat app.

Science, Mathematics, and Physics do not lie - only people do.
trogdor
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 22:51
Well I just want to be able to run my good old dos floppy games

I have not played (Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon) or (barbarian by Mastertronic) or (INTO THE EAGLES NEST) in ages....

@Dazzag, where did the Div community go?? I saw some 3d previews of the new version, and tried couple of demos that worked on winXP, then later I could not get to div-arena anymore
Dazzag
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Posted: 24th Jul 2006 00:15 Edited at: 24th Jul 2006 00:16
I think it died. There was a lot of talk from the main bloke (Mike Green I think) about giving up because of the flak he was getting. I mean we were told about the XP version like about 2001 or so. You also got the idea that he kept adding to it. So originally had a dll that could run old div games in xp, but wouldn't release it (annoyingly). Then decided to re-write it. Then started adding proper 3D stuff. Just kept widening the goalposts as we say here. Plus he kept getting more and more stuff to do on other stuff from the company. Then one day it just didn't exist. And then after a few comments wondering where it was on the retro remake div forum they closed that too.

Damn shame as I thought the language was absolutely brilliant. Very nice to use. For 2D games it absolutely ruled.

Perhaps the spanish stuff is still going (Wasn't there an alternative fan based one called Feenix or somesuch?) but everything being in foreign doesn't help.

Cheers

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stevenup 7002
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Posted: 26th Jul 2006 09:50
Free? I just bought it a few weeks ago.

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