Semi-OT: Virtual PC 7 on Mac OS X

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Oct 21 15:02:59 2004

> Yes, I do believe VPC came with drivers to do it under DOS.
>
> Gee, and Connectix swore that MS was not going to bastardize VPC. The
> first official MS release and suddenly they don't support old MS
> operating systems.

I know :^( I think they only support old MS OS's that are still under
active support.

> What else do they conviently not support?

Well, from what I've been able to find out, at least with VPC6 QNX would
work. I can't get it to work with the emulated S3 card. What really got me
was that the Knoppix Linux CD I have wouldn't work either. I really need to
find a version of Linux that it likes, as I have a couple Linux only apps I
want to run.

I've yet to try OS/2 3.0 or OPENSTEP 4.2, both of which I think should work.
In case anyone is wondering, yes, I'm trying to get all the old OS's I've
run over the years running under VPC :^) Of course who knows if I can find
all the software I want to get up and running, or how many dead floppies I
have.

> I am curious if the old VPC drivers would work with the new version.
> Maybe all they did was stop releasing the driver set. Do you have an
> older version of VPC? I have the 2.0 CD here and it comes with a VPC
> drive file that contains DOS drivers for folder sharing, CD access, and
> S3 video drivers for Win3.1. Alas, the file is 20 MB so a little big to
> email to you (I could stick it on an FTP site if you want). I have NO
> idea if these drivers would work with VPC 7 or not.

I'll have to dig out my VPC3 and VPC4 CD's, but based on the upgrade from V3
to V4 I'm pretty sure the software is specific the version of VPC you're
running.

                Zane
Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 15:02:59 BST