shorty Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Hi guys, I have some old games that I would like to play (Quake - Doom - various flight sims). My intension was to install Virtual PC 2007 on my XP-machine, but I am in doubt if VPC will let me simulate slower hardware? I can install Quake, but when I try to start it up it will crash - my guess is that the clock frequens is to high? Are there other ways of doing this? I have an old pc with WIN98, but would rather stick to just one physical pc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannik Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Would DOSBox help? It's free and emulates a DOS/Win3.1/9x environments as well as anything I have tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Sorry for the late reply. I have downloaded it now and will give it a try, one of the next days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Doh - just realised I never got back on this one. Dannik - DOSBox was just whar was needed Had some troubles with a game that was to run from the CD. A look at the guide got me going in minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oelmuvun Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I should note(regardless of how old this thread is) that VMware will do DX9 with XP as the guest. Alternatively, yea, Dannik is spot on with DOSbox. DOSbox is also free, unlike VMware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApexMods Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I highly recommend VirtualBox (free and open source). So far runs anything I throw at it. Some info: VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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