VirtualPC, VMWare, Quemu(?), Bochs...

VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation..

Dominus wrote:

VirtualPC, VMWare

Yes, but do they really support Direct-X 6 in Hardware (redirecting the calls to the real graphic card)?

ah, yes, true

You will not see virtualization programs using host hardware until PCI Express 2.0 is out in full force and when WDDM 2.1 hardware/driver/OS support is released.

Vmware has the ability to do D3D for DX7+ IIRC but it doesn't work very well.

Usually any DX6 program has a software or glide mode anyways.

abyss: If you mean windows versions as early as win3x. then dosbox could in fact already be called winbox ... It is able to run it.

WINE 😀

Of what use is wine on xp/macs??

on x86 Macs you have Darwine

There are some Wine windows binaries on sourceforge but I'm not sure what use they are.

I would like to see Wine working on Windows tho.

This isn't a Windows emulator, but I have heard about a project to recreate Windows.
http://www.reactos.org/
It's still very alpha, and is an OS in its own right instead of an emulator. They do offer a livecd version, so theoretically it might be possible to boot it from the cd and run Windows apps from it.
No idea if it supports directx yet (I suspect not) or how it will turn out. Something to keep an eye on.

dougdahl wrote:

This isn't a Windows emulator, but I have heard about a project to recreate Windows.
http://www.reactos.org/

They aim to recreate Windows XP, so anything not running on XP will not run on ReactOS, probably. It's a nice attempt though.

JAL

Currently they are struggling to get it stable at all (partial kernel rewrite causes lot's of regressions). But there is nothing against compatibility layers being added later (maybe by someone else).