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First post, by abyss

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My last idea was dumb but i think their should be an early windows emulator as many games especially direct x 6 and lower have troubles running on new operating systems if you do not believe me than try playing nfs 2se with a brand new windows xp and over 512 mbram and see what happens. nfs2se has a strange problem running on computers with over 512 mbram and that is why none of my computers have over 512 mbram and in nfs high stakes i cannot play direct3d mode until i replace the direct x 6 files with direct x 7 files. Their are many other windows games that just won't run on a new operating system. Many windows games have no ways of running them on a new operating system.

Reply 3 of 13, by Wintermute

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Dominus wrote:

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

Reply 5 of 13, by DosFreak

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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.

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Reply 6 of 13, by kruwi

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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.

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Reply 8 of 13, by wd

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Of what use is wine on xp/macs??

Reply 11 of 13, by dougdahl

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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.

Reply 12 of 13, by jal

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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.

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Reply 13 of 13, by h-a-l-9000

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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).

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