Re: Virtual PC 2 and Mac OS

2004-11-07 Thread Spencer Carter
I have used VPC 2 with OS 8.1 on my PB 1400 with 64 megs of RAM. Spence -- Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:12:29 -0500 From: Ted Lovejoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtual PC 2 Mac OS 9.1 Has anyone tried to run Virtual PC 1 or 2 on a 3400c

Virtual PC 2 Mac OS 9.1

2004-11-06 Thread Ted Lovejoy
Has anyone tried to run Virtual PC 1 or 2 on a 3400c with 9.1? Has anyone been able to run Virtual PC 1 or 2 on any Mac OS? Ted -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: Old PC games and virtual PC 3...

2004-03-20 Thread Eric
, I was just wondering if one could use say a PB 1400c/133 boosted to max RAM to run Virtual PC to play old Sierra games that haven't been ported to MacOS (as far as I know). I'm looking for a small platform to play games like space quest or king's quest. Of course I could buy an old laptop

Old PC games and virtual PC 3...

2004-03-19 Thread Farid
Hi all, I was just wondering if one could use say a PB 1400c/133 boosted to max RAM to run Virtual PC to play old Sierra games that haven't been ported to MacOS (as far as I know). I'm looking for a small platform to play games like space quest or king's quest. Of course I could buy an old

Re: Old PC games and virtual PC 3...

2004-03-19 Thread macdaniel3400c
Hi all, I was just wondering if one could use say a PB 1400c/133 boosted to max RAM to run Virtual PC to play old Sierra games that haven't been ported to MacOS (as far as I know). I'm looking for a small platform to play games like space quest or king's quest. Of course I could buy an old

Re: Old PC games and virtual PC 3...

2004-03-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I was just wondering if one could use say a PB 1400c/133 boosted to max RAM to run Virtual PC to play old Sierra games that haven't been ported to MacOS (as far as I know). I'm looking for a small platform to play games like space quest or king's quest. Of course I could buy an old laptop PC

Re: Old PC games and virtual PC 3...

2004-03-19 Thread Farid
Selon Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just wondering if one could use say a PB 1400c/133 boosted to max RAM to run Virtual PC to play old Sierra games that haven't been ported to MacOS (as far as I know). I'm looking for a small platform to play games like space quest or king's

Re: Virtual PC on a 1400

2004-02-12 Thread Jim Lucas
I could not get VPC 4 to run on my 60 meg powerbook 1400; but 3.03a works fine, albeit limited to Win95. If you have 3.0 you will want the incremental updates; they can be a little hard to find (at least they were when Connectix still owned it), holler if you want help. I have VPC 3.0.3, Windoze

Virtual PC on a 1400

2004-02-11 Thread Jim Lucas
I want to put Virtual PC on my PB 1400, but the installer says that itneeds 64 megs of RAM. I have a flash card I am using for virtual memory. Is there a way to install Virtual PC anyways? If I hook the PB up as a SCSI disk to my desktop that has more than enough RAM, and install to the PB

Re: Virtual PC on a 1400

2004-02-11 Thread Brian
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Jim Lucas wrote: I want to put Virtual PC on my PB 1400, but the installer says that itneeds 64 megs of RAM. I have a flash card I am using for virtual memory. Is there a way to install Virtual PC anyways? If I hook the PB up as a SCSI disk to my

Re: Virtual PC on a 1400

2004-02-11 Thread William Barnett-Lewis
From: Jim Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to put Virtual PC on my PB 1400, but the installer says that itneeds 64 megs of RAM. I have a flash card I am using for virtual memory. Is there a way to install Virtual PC anyways? If I hook the PB up as a SCSI disk to my desktop that has more than

Re: Virtual PC on a 1400

2004-02-11 Thread Brian
On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 09:19 PM, William Barnett-Lewis wrote: Couple of things - which version are you trying to use? And how much physical RAM do you have on the 1400? VPC is a very resource hungry application. It really needs a minimum of 64mb of real ram and it really needs a

Re: Virtual PC...latest version for 603e?

2003-06-02 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Thanks Mehdi, I just purchased VPC 3 with Windoze 95 on Ebay last night. How do you like it with Windoze 95? Is it sutiable? Yep, a wee slow on my 200Mhz 3400 but still very usable (though not for everyday use). I guess that it's gonna be much faster on yours as it's a 240Mhz one. You can try

Re: Virtual PC...latest version for 603e?

2003-05-31 Thread David T.
Mehdi wrote... I first had Win 98 (which was included with VPC) : each time i pressed a key on the keyboard, i had to wait 2 or 3 seconds before seeing the letter appear on the screen. Maybe suitable for very patient people but not for me. Feel free to try XP on a 3400 :-) Thanks Mehdi, I just

Re: Virtual PC...latest version for 603e?

2003-05-30 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Hi David, What's the latest version of Virtual PC I can run on my 240mhz 3400c? Was it version 3 or 4? I went to the Connectix homepage but had no luck finding the latest version able to run on a pre-G3 mac is VPC 3. I've tried to install VPC 4 on my 3400 but it refuses to launch

Re: set up of 98lite for Virtual PC

2002-04-27 Thread Tina Holm
At 15:10 +1000 27/04/02, K wrote: I have VPC version 3 with Windows 95 but some software tells me I need to upgrade components that I presume Windows 98 would have. Can I just run 98lite to give me some Windows 98 functionality, or is there much more to this? AFAIK, the 98lite app is for

Re: set up of 98lite for Virtual PC

2002-04-27 Thread hope and the anchor
up of 98lite for Virtual PC At 15:10 +1000 27/04/02, K wrote: I have VPC version 3 with Windows 95 but some software tells me I need to upgrade components that I presume Windows 98 would have. Can I just run 98lite to give me some Windows 98 functionality, or is there much more

Re: set up of 98lite for Virtual PC

2002-04-27 Thread Scott Holder
compatibility) with the speed and simplicity of Win95. Perfect for low-end and emuated computers. Scott Holder At 03:10 PM 4/27/2002 +1000, you wrote: A question for those who run Virtual PC on their machines. After reading newsgroup postings I downloaded software called 98lite which is said

set up of 98lite for Virtual PC

2002-04-26 Thread K
A question for those who run Virtual PC on their machines. After reading newsgroup postings I downloaded software called 98lite which is said to allow you to use Win98 and swap its shell for the sleeker, faster Win95 shell to help VPC run a bit faster. If anyone has used this, could you tell me

Re: Where to get Virtual PC?

2002-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Oh, and you may need to additionally d/l a fix for it if you are running OS9. Won't run without it. Judy On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Spencer Carter wrote: I'm interesting in buying a copy of Virtual PC 2.x for use on my Powerbook 1400 G3 450 and I need at least Windows 95 with it. Does anyone

Re: Virtual PC on pre-G3

2002-03-30 Thread chouston
on 3/29/02 3:11 AM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience with Virtual PC or Softwindows on a Pre-G3 Powerbook? I've thought about trying an older version like VPC 2.1 or something. If it will work what kind of memory requirements are we looking at as well

Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Mike Picone
Anyone have any experience with Virtual PC or Softwindows on a Pre-G3 Powerbook? I've thought about trying an older version like VPC 2.1 or something. If it will work what kind of memory requirements are we looking at as well as HDD space? I want to use my Powerbook for work, but have some Win

Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
Mike Picone wrote: Anyone have any experience with Virtual PC or Softwindows on a Pre-G3 Powerbook? I've thought about trying an older version like VPC 2.1 or something. If it will work what kind of memory requirements are we looking at as well as HDD space? I want to use my Powerbook

Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Scott Holder
At 07:02 AM 3/28/2002 -0800, you wrote: Anyone have any experience with Virtual PC or Softwindows on a Pre-G3 Powerbook? I've thought about trying an older version like VPC 2.1 or something. If it will work what kind of memory requirements are we looking at as well as HDD space? I want to use my

Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Andrew
I used to run VPC on a PowerBook 5300 with 64MB of ram (maximum). Windows 95 was tolerable so long as the app in use didn't require virtual memory. I guess something about using an emulated disk to function as emulated virtual memory just was too much to do quickly. Andrew To make something

Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Joseph C. Sis, JR.
Which version of VPC was that? - Original Message - From: Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Virtual PC I used to run VPC on a PowerBook 5300 with 64MB of ram (maximum). Windows 95 was tolerable so long

Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Judy Perry
Hmmm... I thought VPC (2.0) was quite tolerably usable on my 6500/250. Thought it crawled on my 5300/120. Not bad on my husband's iBook and I'm going to try it on my TiBook. Judy On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Scott Holder wrote: I've used VPC 3 on both a 6500/225 (603e) and a Starmax 4000/200mhz

Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Andrew
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Re: Virtual PC

2002-03-28 Thread Chuck Underhill
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