Semi-OT: Virtual PC 7 on Mac OS X

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Oct 21 18:29:43 2004

> > > I'm not sure about VPC7, but M$VPC 2004 (Winders) supports:
> > > MS-DOS
> > > Win95/98/ME/
> > > NT workstation / 2K / XP
> > > OS/2
> > > NT Server / 2K Server / 2K3 Server
> > >
> > > ... and the ubiquitous ...
> > > "Other"
> >
> >By supports, are these what it specifically *claims* to support?
>
> If you mean you can select each of those through a drop-down box, yes. The
> install also includes a "Virtual Machines Additions" which gives MS OSs
> extra functionality in the emulator, and this includes MS-DOS. It even
> gives the emulator access to a USB floppy drive invisibly, although in a
> Win98SE dosbox doing a "diskcopy a: a:" didn't work correctly, prolly a
> timing issue.
>
> Also, as I mentioned above, this is a Winders environment, so I'm sure M$
> doesn't work nearly as hard on the Mac side of the pond...

Rats! You've definitely got it better than us Mac users then! Nothing
happens when I try to install the "Virtual Machines Additions" on MS-DOS (I
tried that last night). OTOH, I can use my old USB floppy drive without any
problem, and that is how I installed MS-DOS.

                Zane
Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 18:29:43 BST