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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:20 PM

Operation Wolf under Virtual PC

Operation Wolf was one of my childhood favorite arcade games. This game places you as a commando tearing through 6 different levels shooting *almost* everything that moves. I do not know why - but as a child I used to take great joy in shooting the few
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:59 PM

Handling virtual machine events from VBScript

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a sample script to handle Virtual Server events (here: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/11/03/488301.aspx ). Well today I have a slightly different script that shows you how to get events for a specific
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Monday, November 28, 2005 5:19 PM

QIX under Virtual PC

QIX is one of the oldest arcade games I know of - and while it is rather fun - the stories that people tried to develop around it were bizarre to say the least. The basis of QIX is that you control this little diamond and attempt to 'box in' a quick moving
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:48 PM

AfterBurner under Virtual PC

While looking around recently I dredged up this old classic. This is the 1989 PC port of the arcade classic 'AfterBurner' by SEGA. Spending time playing these truly retro games is always a risky proposition. Sometimes you find that time has not faired
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:41 PM

Talking about NetWare under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Over the next couple of weeks I am going to be looking at the details of running Novell NetWare under Virtual PC / Virtual Server - however before we get going there are two things I need to cover. First: NetWare is not supported under Virtual PC / Virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, November 21, 2005 7:40 PM

Virtual PC and video ram

Virtual PC emulates an S3 Trio 64 Video card with 8mb of video ram (VRAM). From time to time I get people asking me why we do not increase the amount of VRAM - and there are a couple of reasons why: VRAM is a fixed overhead. Each virtual machine that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 18 Comments
Friday, November 18, 2005 7:06 PM

Rebel Assault II under Virtual PC

Like so many computer game sequels - Rebel Assault II takes the same concepts as were used in the original Rebel Assault and polishes them up. Rebel Assault II follows a new story line where you play a rookie pilot who stumbles into a plan by the Empire
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:59 PM

HP ProLiant server sizer for Microsoft Virtual Serer 2005 R2

So I got sent a pretty cool link today: http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/281742-0-0-0-121.html (You will need to signup for a HP login to view this page) What it does is ask you a whole bunch of questions about what type, configuration and
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:04 PM

Pricing for Virtual Server 2005 R2 announced

As part of the IT Forum announcments - pricing for Virtual Server 2005 R2 was announced today. Microsoft will be offering Virtual Server R2 Standard Edition for $99 (U.S.) estimated retail price and Virtual Server R2 Enterprise Edition for $199 (U.S.)
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Monday, November 14, 2005 10:19 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 RTMs

Hi All, Well - Virtual Server 2005 R2 has RTM'd. Some high level details of the changes in Virtual Server 2005 R2 are as follows: Virtual Server host clustering. Support for host-to-host connectivity lets you cluster all virtual machines running on a
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 15 Comments
Friday, November 11, 2005 7:32 PM

Rebel Assault under Virtual PC

Ahh.. Rebel Assault. This classic star wars game was one of my favorites. It had you playing 'rookie 1' - a young rebel fighter who is remarkably like, yet not quite like, Luke Skywalker. This game presents you with many varied missions in different types
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:11 AM

New Virtual Server 2005 R2 whitepapers

In the lead up to the release of Virtual Server 2005 R2 there are now two new interesting whitepapers available off of the Microsoft download center: Virtual Server Host Clustering Step-by-Step Guide for Virtual Server 2005 R2: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55644
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:01 PM

The 7th Guest under Virtual PC

Released in 1993 - The 7th Guest was one of the first CD-ROM based games I ever played (on a friend's 1x CD-ROM drive which was a caddy loader). This was the first of the infamous 'interactive movie' games. It places you in a creepy house built by an
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:04 AM

Damn Small Linux under Virtual PC

For those who don't know - Damn Small Linux is a version of Linux designed to fit in under 50mb. It is really quite impressive and a lot of fun to use under Virtual PC. If you download the LiveCD ISO image you can boot it directly under Virtual PC with
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Monday, November 07, 2005 11:09 AM

Virtual machines pausing at launch under Virtual PC

If you are seeing a noticeable 'pause' when you start a virtual machine under Virtual PC - you may want to try going into the virtual machines settings and disabling automatic detection under the floppy setting. It seems that on some systems trying to
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Friday, November 04, 2005 11:27 PM

Donald Duck's Playground under Virtual PC

Okay - this is a really old game. I can remember having a copy of this on my original Commodore 64 - so when I found out that the original DOS version was available for free from here , I just had to give it a shot: As you can see the game runs perfectly.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:29 PM

Detecting Virtual Server events with VBScript

Virtual Server exposes a number of interesting events which you may want to use to initiate appropriate actions. However, detecting these events with VBScript is not entirely intuitive. Below is a script that will listen for the first virtual machine
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:12 PM

Overkill under Virtual PC

OVERKILL Arcade game from EPIC MEGAGAMES ------------------------------------------- SMOOTH 16-color scrolling action, SB/Adlib sound track, and joystick support! You arrive at your home planet after a long space flight, only to find it has been destroyed
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:59 PM

Minix 3.0 under Virtual PC

As recently announced Minix 3.0 has recently been released . The original Minix was an educational operating system - that actually served as the inspiration for development of Linux. From the Minix 3.0 website: MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
 
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