>My grandson would like to play some of his PC games on my 8500
HARDWARE
For my legacy 50 MHz bus 7500 and 9500, I prefer a hardware PCI card
with a dedicated CPU and _hardware_ graphics acceleration. I keep an
OrangePC P-233 in my 9500/G3-400, and retired my IBM ThinkPad laptop.
Hardware cards can use a genuine Wintel graphics driver to be far
more compatible with Windows games than software emulators. I bought
more than once Orange Micro Pentium-class PCI cards in particular
because they can access their own SCSI disk directly instead of
requiring a file on a Macintosh drive.
SOFTWARE
Virtual PC 4 is very good on a 100MHz bus G3-PowerBook. My experience
cannot recommend VPC version 3 or earlier for any hardware, and
SoftWindows also has never been acceptable on any hardware I owned,
although SoftPC (MS-DOS software emulation) was good in its time,
which was circa Macintosh OS 6.0.5.
FOR SALE
And surprise-surprise, all that hardware hype was self-serving. I
have an OrangePC PCI card for sale: $75 OBO. This is a 12" PCI card.
It has
- 16M RAM
- a PC166 Cyrix CPU
- all required cabling for traditional WinTel
video/serial/parallel/sound/joystick devices
- a CDR of the latest OrangePC software & manuals
(freely downloadable from OrangeMicro.com support section).
Need Windows? Factory-CD of 95 or NT4, your choice, for $25 more.
Sale enquiries offlist, please.
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