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Virtual PC 2.1.2 update?
Hrm. I now have a copy of Virtual PC 2.1 (thanks to atireduser!)
But...
I really want to run it on my B&W G3, in Mac OS 8.6. Unfortunately, there is a known incompatibility which requires the (free) 2.1.2 update for it to run in 8.6.
Well, Connectix is now long gone; and Microsoft doesn't offer up any old Connectix-era updates. Anyone have this updater lying around on some forgotten corner of a disk?
(P.S. I'm posting this from the G3, in 8.6, via Classilla. Thanks, ClassicHasClass!)
One fun factoid from the ReadMe that I hadn't known before: Virtual PC 2 supports direct hardware access of 3Dfx cards! It wasn't until 10 years later that VMware got the ability to directly access a 3D accelerator.
But...
I really want to run it on my B&W G3, in Mac OS 8.6. Unfortunately, there is a known incompatibility which requires the (free) 2.1.2 update for it to run in 8.6.
Well, Connectix is now long gone; and Microsoft doesn't offer up any old Connectix-era updates. Anyone have this updater lying around on some forgotten corner of a disk?
(P.S. I'm posting this from the G3, in 8.6, via Classilla. Thanks, ClassicHasClass!)
One fun factoid from the ReadMe that I hadn't known before: Virtual PC 2 supports direct hardware access of 3Dfx cards! It wasn't until 10 years later that VMware got the ability to directly access a 3D accelerator.
The closest I can find is a 3.0 updater CD.
OK, I found 2.1.3, would that work? It can update from 2.0-2.1.2 to 2.1.3.
Thank you very much! (I hadn't realized there was 2.1.3...
No problem!
I just had some time to kill while waiting for these stupid ~250MiB XviD anime episodes to download... Stupid slow connection!
I just had some time to kill while waiting for these stupid ~250MiB XviD anime episodes to download... Stupid slow connection!
You could still get very good performance with VPC3 -- I keep it around to play older Windows games. Believe it or not, on my MDD G4 this is enough to run Shogo MAD in Windows 98 with software rendering at a frame rate that isn't atrocious. (I don't need it as much now thanks to my wonderful OrangePC 620 and the 400MHz K6-III I put on it, and I have the Mac native Shogo anyway, but at the time it was great stuff.)
VPC4 ruined that and the rest of the releases sucked for games.
VPC4 ruined that and the rest of the releases sucked for games.
I used to run it with a Voodoo2 card. It was pretty nice for games that supported that card.
May have to resurrect my Beige G3/400 to see what kind of damage I can do.
May have to resurrect my Beige G3/400 to see what kind of damage I can do.