January, 2005

Virtual PC has a convenient feature called 'Shared Networking'. What this is is a small virtual NAT (network address translation) router - which is quite similar to the cheap hardware broadband routers that a lot of people use (myself included). The advantage...

To install OS/2 Warp 4 under Virtual PC you will need to create a virtual machine with a 2GB virtual hard disk (if you use the new virtual machine wizard and tell it you are installing 'OS/2' it will create a 2GB virtual hard disk for you) Next - you...

Windows Server 2003 does not include drivers for the Sound Blaster 16 emulated by Virtual PC (nor is this card officially supported in Windows Server 2003). It is - however - possible to get sound working by loading the Windows XP drivers under Windows...

There have been a number of people reporting that when they start a virtual machine - they get the following error: The network adapter with address "00:00:00:00:00:00" of virtual machine "...." failed to initialize because the address is a null address...

Inside of Virtual PC we provide a number of 'emulated' devices - like the S3 Trio video card and the Intel 21140 network card. People regularly ask me why we emulate these specific devices - and there are a number of reasons. It is important to know that...

Once you have OS/2 up and running (as discuss here:...) the first thing that you should do is to get the latest FixPack installed - which happens to be FP15 for OS/2 Warp 4. To do this - boot the OS/2 virtual machine and open an OS/2 Command Prompt Window...

Halloween Harry is a little known, but very classy, platform game release in the hay day of DOS gaming. Smooth graphics, wide variety of weapons and lame story line (save the world from Zombie aliens) are all present. In order to run Halloween Harry under...

Solar Winds is a not-too-well-known game by Epic Mega. To be honest - it is not the greatest game in the world - but I enjoy playing it from time to time. It is an interesting space exploration game where you play a freelancing mercenary. However its...

Released in '92 - Capture the Flag - is a surprisingly high quality and very focused shareware game. It provides a simple interface for a basic game of 'capture the flag'. You control your team members in a turn based strategy style to try and capture...

At various times it is convenient to be able to identify the host computer from inside of a virtual machine in a programatic fashion (e.g. When you are deploying a virtual machine or running an automated process). To help in these scenarios both Virtual...

For a while now I have been convincing people that I have psychic capabilities. The usual conversation has been: Random person: I just put some extra memory in my physical system - so that I now have 2GB of RAM - and now Virtual PC can't use more than...

Every now an then there is a game that runs surprisingly well under Virtual PC. Tomb raider is one such game. There are no issues (that I know of) and it runs playably at low detail on most modern machines - and I can run it playably at high detail on...

For those who do not know - Rogue is quite possibly the greatest 'old school' game of all time - and the predecessor of most modern 'dungeon exploration' games. Indeed - when the infamous 'Diablo' was released it felt very much like Rogue with modern...

An associate of mine pointed out a couple of points that I missed few points for OS/2 installation: You should be careful to specify that you want to use NetBios over TCP/IP during installation instead of plain NetBios. You need NetBios over TCP/IP to...

EGA-Trek is an old classic space strategy game where you get to warp around the galaxy, blowing up bad guys with photon torpedoes and laser cannons. From the FILE_ID.DIZ: EGATrek v3.0: EGA space/strategy game. You are in command of a powerful starship...

Conquests of Camelot: Quest for the Holy Grail is a classic Sierra adventure game. You use the mouse or keyboard to move around - and type in actions for Arthur to perform. One thing that I always remember about Conquests of Camelot is that it is incredibly...

Well - today I went to the Windows Core All Hands meeting - where I got to listen to top executives talking about our plans for the coming year. And what did I learn? That if you make a Ham, Cheese and Lettuce sandwich - you can stop the bread from getting...

When you create a new virtual machine - you will be prompted to select which operating system you are going to install. Now - a number of people wonder why we ask for this information - and how we decide on what operating system to display by default...