It will work fine. It's not in the requirements to work under XP Home because MS didn't want to bother to support it under XP Home.

ah ok... just curious as i don't like to use what isnt workable under my current o/s... but since i hear from a fairly reliable person that it will work i will happily install it and watch my pc die... (joking)

wow... blood runs at a much faster speed in winME on virtual pc then it dos in dosbox... lawl i cant use win 9x o/s's natively due to no drivers for my mobo under them... which is why i wanted to look at virtual pc....

works awesomly...

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i can't find my win98 disc thus im stuck with using winME.

vpc is a virtualizer, dosbox an emulator

Expect a lot of older games to play much too quickly. That's the problem when they don't emulate CPUs - the speed problems will still exist.

Some games won't work at all, it's not only games speed but CPU instructions (I guess). Virtual PC is optimal to create an antiseptical environment (and it's great) or to use Windows on a computer with different architecture. Period

Last time I tried it was more than just some - it emulated a very crappy graphics card for starters. Only the very simplest games ran flawlessly.

Actually, it emulates exactly the same graphics card as DOSBox. The completeness of emulation is another story...

Yes but I was talking about emulating Windows 95 or 98 using Virtual PC and those early Windows games often do need a 3D card of some sort.

Only DX7+ games. Everything earlier works fine with GDI/DirectDraw

lawl it virtualizes a "soundblaster 16/awe32" soundcard and was wandering how to set the sound in dos from within windows... because blood runs so much faster in it... but yea only the music worked... not the sound fx.

i have tried... (the first set results in a crash when testing and the second group just say it fails due to a invalid irq... i have tried as many combinations as possible to get it to work. [im unsure what i set 16 dma to... either 5 or 7])

address 220
irq 5
dma 1
16 dma 5

address 220
irq 7
dma 1
16 dma 5

ok, in milo the fuel run it auto detects it and says it exists but it says playback isnt available.

it lists my IRQ as 255... any fix for this?

IIRC, VPC doesn't support ACPI so there's no way you can have any IRQ that high in VPC....

Well 255 is most likely the value they use for "not detected".

yea, 255 to me is a max value so i was also thinking it wasn't detected... how does one go about having a IRQ in VPC? (I've been trying the set blaster command by putting it in autoexec.bat)

Don't know if having no IRQ assigned to the sb is the actual reason,
maybe you can try several different sb detection routines (of different
games for example) to see if one of them detects an irq/sb.

The BLASTER environment is just a hint at programs what the current
settings are (if they are working).

will do... ill get blake stone as that has a nice program 😀

🙁 none of the blake stone exe files work... ill figure something out.