well you can get the xp mode but to be honest I was not happy with
its performance I gave it 2tgb of ram and it still hated me.
Maybe its partly because I have a win7 32 bit os, and technically I
guess I don't need it but whatever.
I still do want one.
What really gets me is that vmware aparently has some way to convert
machines to xp units well to image a machine and then you use it.
I have my old box set up, registered for the most part and ready to
use so if I could image that and make it a vmware vm then that would be fine.
I also have a couple units 1 has an upgrade xp only from 98 but again
if I could image that well.
At 03:18 AM 6/20/2013, you wrote:
how can i get an xp vm
On 6/19/13, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Well, personally I think a Windows XP virtual machine is the best
> solution for playing these old games. I am saying that both as a
> Windows user and a Linux user. Reason being that Dosbox isn't
> accessible on any platform, and while Dosemu works on Linux I've never
> been able to get it to play sound while running as a dumb terminal.
>
> Besides that there are a number of other accessible games that for one
> reason or another that just runs better on XP. I can think of a lot of
> games written in VB 6 that really run better on XP, and just aren't as
> well supported on Windows 7. Therefore if you are going to go through
> the trouble of setting up an XP virtual machine you might as well as
> install all of your older games on it rather than using Dosemu etc.
>
> For example, I've spent some time this last week trying to get a
> number of audio games running using Wine on Linux. Besides being a
> pain in the butt to setup and get working correctly there are a number
> of games that crash using Wine. However, if I Install XP on Linux
> using VMWare or Virtual Box they run fine. So an XP virtual machine is
> the best solution all and all.
>
> On 6/19/13, Josh Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> so what do you think is the best way to play these old games? linux with
>> dosemu or a windows xp vm?
>>
>>
>
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