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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

I just found a cool app that lets you run multiple versions of Windows
on your Desktop, called "Virtual PC". Makes testing my apps so much
easier and faster because I don't need to reboot into different
Operating Systems anymore. I know this sounds like spam but it's not,
it's a genuine tip that I had to share. Details of the app are here:

http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5w.html

Here's some pointers for you to make evaluating it go smoothly:

The app requires a "trial license" to be used when installing it, so
to save you the hassle of giving them your E-Mail address to get it,
just use mine: VPT5 - 6509 - 3218 - 6904 - 0317 . Note that this is
not a serial number to crack the program; it's just a serial number
required to use the fully-functioning 45-day demo!

Next, make sure you have copies of the Operating Systems on CD in order
to use them with the demo... it doesn't come with Win 9x and so on.

Lastly, take note of the following Knowledge Base article on their
web site, which caused me some testing problems until I found it:

http://tinyurl.com/1gbx

Well, that's it. It's a big download (about 24 MB), but well worth
the time it saves when testing your apps on multiple Operating Systems.

Just remember that the trial ends after 45 days, so if you have Norton
Ghost (or similar) then perhaps snapshot your system before installing
it, so you can always restore the snapshot and get another 45 days.


PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Hi-Toro.

PB, check out http://www.vmware.com as well


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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> PB, check out http://www.vmware.com as well

Cool... but I just spent 2 days making drive images of 95, 98 and XP,
so I'll stick with Virtual PC as a result.


PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

VMWare is much faster ..

Fred - AlphaSND

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> VMWare is much faster ..

Hmm... close to 100% emulation? Virtual PC runs Win 9x for me at near
normal speed, and in full-screen mode I forget that I'm actually running
W2K underneath and not Win 9x... Is VMWare as fast as that?
(BTW, I'm talking about Desktop apps, not games).


PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by plopzz.

I think VPC is more compatible becose you can use softice on it...
But VMware exist on linux too ...

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

VMWare is 100x faster than VirtualPC because of the trick used: it's a virtual machine, not an emulator. The difference is huge: the x86 is simply used instead of being emulated like on VirtualPC. Of course, it works only on x86 based computer. For those which know it, it's exactlty the same concept than ShapeShifter, an 68000 mac emulator which runned on Amiga at the same speed than a mac with the same processor. You can try it too, you have a 30 days evaluation and runs some speed tester .

Fred - AlphaSND

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> VMWare is 100x faster than VirtualPC [snip]

Okay, I'll download VMWare and try it out.

UPDATE: Hmm, first impressions aren't so great... I can't get it to
show me a virtual C: drive at all after booting from a floppy. And
the drives it creates are split into 2 GB parts instead of one single
file like Virtual PC. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to format
the drives as either FAT or FAT32, which is important to me. But
most important of all: virtual drives can't be bigger than 4 GB!

With Virtual PC, I had a virtual Win 95 system up and going within the
first 20-30 minutes. With VMWare, I'm still scratching my head after
60 minutes and wondering WTF is going on...


PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Alltimefriend.

I've got VMWare for Linux and am really happy with it. I do not have any own Windows-Partition, I only run it under VMWare and also do PureBasic-Development under Windows through the help of VMWare.