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Friday, September 26, 2008 1:29 AM

SimAnt under Virtual PC

This is one of my favorite not-so-well-known computer games.  Released in 1991, designed by Will Wright (the maker of SimCity) it is a quite whacky game.  You lead an Ant colony and attempt to: Build your nest Secure a food supply Defeat - Spiders
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Friday, August 29, 2008 5:11 PM

Battle Chess II under Virtual PC

Battle Chess II was released in 1990, two years after the original Battle Chess .  Battle Chess II sports higher quality graphics and support for Sound Blaster sound effects (though it actually uses the Sound Blasters musical "FM" capabilities
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Friday, April 11, 2008 11:16 PM

Risk under Virtual PC 2007

Released in 1989, this was the first "official" computer version of Risk.  As such it goes a long way to try and replicate the board game in as much detail as possible.  It even goes as far as allowing you to pick whether you are playing
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Friday, March 14, 2008 3:06 PM

Trilby: The Art of Theft under Virtual PC

A little while ago I stumbled upon the game Trilby: The Art of Theft.  This is a fun little game that I have enjoyed spending a couple of days playing (I have now completed it).  The basic concept of the game is to guide Trilby through a series
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Friday, February 29, 2008 4:32 PM

Warheads on Virtual PC 2007

Wow, it has been far too long since I posted about gaming and virtualization...  So today I would like to talk about Warheads.  This is a wacky little game released by Ionos Interactive and Total Play in 1997.  It is basically a version
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Friday, November 30, 2007 11:47 PM

Kosmonaut under Virtual PC 2007

A while ago I reviewed SkyRoads under Virtual PC - however I missed the predecessor to SkyRoads: Kosmonaut.  This game was released in 1990 and plays very similarly to its successor.  The graphics are slightly less polished but interestingly
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Friday, November 02, 2007 10:17 AM

Shinobi under Virtual PC

Shinobi was a SEGA arcade classic - that was then ported to every system on the face of the earth - and the PC was one of them. I never was able to find a story that explained the premise of this game - but it is fairly obvious. You are the ninja, throwing
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Friday, September 14, 2007 1:32 PM

Flying Tigers under Virtual PC

This is an old vertical scrolling flying shooting them up style game, similar to Raptor in many cases, but not as polished. The story behind this game is fairly flimsy and tells of bad guys who got control of time machines-which sets the stage for you
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, September 07, 2007 3:48 PM

Captain COMIC under Virtual PC

You are Captain Comic, galactic hero. Your mission is to recover three treasures from the planet Omsoc, which have been stolen away and hidden on the remote planet of Tambi. Your task will not be easy, you will need to gather tools to increase your fighting
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:47 PM

Command & Conquer available for free download

Okay, so not really Virtual PC or Virtual Server related (except that I have posted about Command & Conquer under Virtual PC before - here and here ). But EA have made the original Windows 95 version of Command & Conquer available for free download.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Friday, July 13, 2007 12:37 PM

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 under Virtual PC

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is one of the last of the great platform games. It was also one of the only ones to be released as a Windows 95/98 only game. You play the role of a gun wielding green rabbit out to stop the space turtles from taking over the universe.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Friday, July 06, 2007 5:15 PM

X-Wing under Virtual PC

Now this is a classic, the original DOS version of X-Wing. The game where you got to play as part of the rebellion and try to overthrow the evil empire - you even get to participate in the final run on the Death Star. This game had many things that made
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 20 Comments
Friday, June 29, 2007 2:47 PM

Martian Memorandum under Virtual PC

Continuing on with the Tex Murphy games we arrive at Martian Memorandum. This would have to be my favorite Tex Murphy game - with a gripping story and a simple click and point interface. That is not to say that it is without its problems. The biggest
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Friday, June 22, 2007 5:33 PM

Mean Streets under Virtual PC

Heh. It has been so long since I posted about a game that I am sure that many of you were wondering what had gone wrong. Well, never fear, things have just been a bit busy around here. So, today I was reminiscing about about old Tex Murphy games - and
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Monday, May 14, 2007 3:53 PM

Slowing down virtual machines

A common request that I hear is that people want a way to create a 'slow' virtual machine. Usually this is because they have an old game or application that has problems when run on modern, fast computers. The problem is that Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
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