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Offline Greystash

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Best emulator for Windows games/apps
« on: October 14, 2018, 06:36:00 PM »
Just wondering if there are many other alternatives to Virtual PC out there? I've used this a bit but have found it quite sluggish (mouse lag) which I find annoying. Plus VPC 6 only shows that I have 4MB video memory which is tiny compared to the 32MB I have. There's no way OS9 can be using the remaining 28MB.
Are there any other good emulators out there that can run windows games/apps on a PPC Mac?
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Re: Best emulator for Windows games/apps
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2018, 11:16:02 PM »
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Re: Best emulator for Windows games/apps
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2018, 11:22:30 AM »
Quote from: darthnVader on October 14, 2018, 11:16:02 PM
Back in the day, there were DOS cards.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010617015726/http://www.orangemicro.com:80/opc660.html

That's right, they were pretty cool! I ended up buying a Quicksilver G4 so Hopefully that will be a bit faster with VPC
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Re: Best emulator for Windows games/apps
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2018, 05:13:30 AM »
Quote from: Greystash on October 20, 2018, 11:22:30 AM
Quote from: darthnVader on October 14, 2018, 11:16:02 PM
Back in the day, there were DOS cards.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010617015726/http://www.orangemicro.com:80/opc660.html

That's right, they were pretty cool! I ended up buying a Quicksilver G4 so Hopefully that will be a bit faster with VPC

VPC was never really speedy, Win95 or Win98 ran OK. Emulating graphics hardware can be tricky, and the guest CPU ends up using a lot of clock cycles redrawing the screen. I don't remember if VPC let you set the refresh rate of the guest, but the lower the better.
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Offline F_Dragos

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Re: Best emulator for Windows games/apps
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2024, 10:14:45 PM »
The best method of running XP and Vista code is CrossOver from codeweavers.

It is a polished version of Wine.

It will not run on a PPC.



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Offline gert79

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Re: Best emulator for Windows games/apps
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2024, 06:56:49 AM »
Is there any emulator/virtual machine for OS9 that supports midi/OMS ?
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