Any news about PCEM development? It's been quiet for several months.

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:45

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Usually once a year a new version is released and well it's been a while even for just minor changes. No need for rude replies PLEASE! I'm genuinely curious: I wonder if Covid is screwing a lot up as if that's the case it's completely understandable and the 'World's' economic situation which all the …

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Re: Current status of VirtualBox's legacy support

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:41

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You might want to take a look at javispedro's work: he developed an extension pack for VirtualBox called "VMusic", which adds support for emulating "popular" music devices, including OPL3 (based on the accurate Nuked OPL3 emulation code), but also MPU-401. and even AWE. See this Vogons thread here: …

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Re: Current status of VirtualBox's legacy support

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:39

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Please do NOT point me to DosBox or PCem/86Box/UniPCemu, I'm aware of how good they are <3, I'm doing this for technical reasons. EDIT: I haven't tried QEMU yet! In general, low-level compatibility is fairly... good? Everything I thrown to it has worked SO FAR, but it could be a lucky shot, …

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Re: pcem directx 6 issue

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:37

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Extract the contents from the zip file, create an ISO image from the extracted files and from there you can mount it in PCem. how do I do it? do I need imgburn? Yes, ImgBurn or a similar program is enough for creating a simple ISO image. Any To ISO is now yours! https://crystalidea.com/anytoiso the …

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Re: Software comparison

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:35

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If it is about PC emulation accuracy, both PCem and 86Box are the closest thing but it requires a CPU with very fast single thread performance for a decent experience. Another alternative is DOSBox-X which goes further than the original DOSBox regarding running DOS software in general. …

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Re: Software comparison

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:31

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In your opinion, what is the most compatible PC emulation software, and the most accurate PC emulation software? I don't know them all either, other than QEMU, DosBox, Virtualbox, or PCem and 86box. Didn't try VMware yet. You can cross off QEMU since it's command line only and I don't know a …

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Re: VPC 2007 on XPSP3 'beta has expired' when clicking on the exe after install.

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:26

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Virtual PC 2004/2007 worked fine for me for years. I ran it on both Windows XP SP2/SP3. Guests were ranging from DOS+WfW, OS/2 Warp to Vista. Edit: Win Me included. Since it's Freeware now, I can send you my backup copy of Virtual PC, if it can help you. This shouldn't be against the rules, I guess …

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Re: VPC 2007 on XPSP3 'beta has expired' when clicking on the exe after install.

Posted on 2023-01-23, 05:54

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Virtual PC 2004/2007 worked fine for me for years. I ran it on both Windows XP SP2/SP3. Guests were ranging from DOS+WfW, OS/2 Warp to Vista. Edit: Win Me included. Since it's Freeware now, I can send you my backup copy of Virtual PC, if it can help you. This shouldn't be against the rules, I guess …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-23, 05:50

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Older games having issues on Windows XP on modern hardware or in a VM, doesn't automatically mean it's an OS issue. A lot of reasons could be the cause; hardware incompatibility, driver issues, or even game bugs that do not affect 9x but manifest on XP. Although XP does genuinely have issues with …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-23, 05:48

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Sim copter, streets sim city, and the other sim city 2000 based Maxis games work perfectly on my son's socket A Athlon system perfectly. What are the specs of your XP system your CPU might be to fast or something along those lines. The Dell Optiplex was a 760. It's a Linux machine now which Mom has …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-23, 05:46

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64-bit XP was rough for the early lack of drivers and software firewalls available in 2005 (this got better later in 2007), but it definitely did have some gamer marketing weight towards it (UT2004 64-bit, FarCry 64-bit) SimCopter was a big technical goof from Maxis, probably their first major slip …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-23, 05:44

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Older games having issues on Windows XP on modern hardware or in a VM, doesn't automatically mean it's an OS issue. A lot of reasons could be the cause; hardware incompatibility, driver issues, or even game bugs that do not affect 9x but manifest on XP. Although XP does genuinely have issues with …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-23, 05:41

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Older games having issues on Windows XP on modern hardware or in a VM, doesn't automatically mean it's an OS issue. A lot of reasons could be the cause; hardware incompatibility, driver issues, or even game bugs that do not affect 9x but manifest on XP. Although XP does genuinely have issues with …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-09, 13:50

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Another game is Sim Copter which will run too fast and crash after a few minutes. Running it on Computability mode for Win 95/98 didn't change anything so yeah several games have hiccups on XP which is why we avoided it back then for as long as possible till SP3 came which while didn't fix those …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-09, 13:47

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What ? This is not what happened at all... I got the kernels backwards that's all but the point still stands that MS effed up during the process more then during the 16 to 32 bit transition of Win 3.1 to Win 95. I was there at the time and know what I saw. Not really, no. XP was highly compatible …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-09, 13:44

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What ? This is not what happened at all... I got the kernels backwards that's all but the point still stands that MS effed up during the process more then during the 16 to 32 bit transition of Win 3.1 to Win 95. I was there at the time and know what I saw. Not really, no. XP was highly compatible …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-09, 12:01

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2023-01-08, 19:24: What ? This is not what happened at all... I got the kernels backwards that's all but the point still stands that MS effed up during the process more then during the 16 to 32 bit transition of Win 3.1 to Win 95. I was there at the time and know what I saw.

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-09, 12:00

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What does white lists on the compatibility chart mean? Or is that too racist to ask on here? 🤷‍♂️ It shows Carmen Sandiego 1996 on a white category with no info. It was initially filled up, but I left it blank because there were some issues with GDI on Windows. i guess I should update them with …

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VPC 2007 on XPSP3 'beta has expired' when clicking on the exe after install.

Posted on 2023-01-09, 11:58

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I was going to run Windows ME on a VHD I found and to do that I need VPC2007 for best compatiblity outside of PCEM so I would like to know why whenever it is I installed it I got so close yet so far on virtualbox? I can install it but as soon as I click on the exe to actually run it I get a crash …

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Re: [OPEN]Retail Windows 95-Windows XP 32-bit games which can work on Windows 7 and later without game data modification

Posted on 2023-01-08, 18:57

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I wonder if this is still a thing. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii-chicken-and-egg-problems/ Interesting read. I wonder how many more games had put these type of bugs and MS fixed it themselves. Not really. They keep breaking things. Even full directx games from 95 …

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