VPC 2.1.3 (very first that works with Mac OS 9) emulate little smaller PC than later VPCs:
- PentiumMMX (not PII MMX, like later)
- S3Trio32/64 1MB/2MB/4MB (many times more is better, but not always)
- Sound Blaster Pro (=8-bit 22khz with OPL2, not Sound Blaster II, like later)
- 126 MB RAM (not max 512 MB, like later)
When you know that, it is worth to try for some games that meets those requirements.
Thump rule is set color depth 256 in both Win and Mac and full screen is fastest.
(ok..if you are hc, you can try 16 colors in Win side, some times it really helps, some time not).
And set 640x480 resolution both...if it run fast enough, then try more VPC2 support up to 1600x1200.
Later versions can be faster, but they give more resources also for multitasking and that is
why emulation some times jumping (VPC 5)..or even can stop, if you don't touch any key or mouse (VPC 6).
All VPC versions have good and bad points, so it would be nice that somebody make list what VPC version
is good to what games and apps. Something like this (..sorry hard to get lines to match,but you might undestand):
App/game | VPC2 | VPC3 | VPC 4 | VPC 5 | VPC 6 | WIN version | PC Settings | Test Machine | Remarks
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Notepad | Yes | | | | | Win98 | 64Mt/1Mt Vram | G3 266 Mhz 192Mt | Should work fine in every version
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etc. | | | | | | | | |
Empty=not tested yet
Yes=fast enough
No=not work at all
slow=too slow, but work
fast=too fast, but work
Y/N=works, but some problems, write to remarks more info.