Stunts under Virtual PC

re: Stunts under Virtual PC

Benjamin Armstrong — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:00:56 GMT

Hi Doug,

I have never focused solely on setting up a gaming environment - however for DOS you may want to checkout: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx

Cheers,
Ben

re: Stunts under Virtual PC

Doug — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:49 GMT

This comment is actually about gaming with a Virtual PC in general...

I just discovered this site about 15min ago. That said, I have been thinking for some time now about creating a Virtual PC for the express purpose of playing a couple of older games (specifically, the Star Control series). My thinking was that my 2005-class gaming rig would make these older games unplayable. But in a VPC, I could scale back the system resources and play on my old PII and these games would rock!

If this is the same thing you're doing here (it seems you are only wiriting about specific games, and your experiences playing them now), then could you post up a very brief how-to guide on the steps to make a circa 1996 gaming VPC?

It's possible you've already done this; I looked, really, but didn't find it...

Thanks in advance!

re: Stunts under Virtual PC

Kirk Davis — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:17:40 GMT

Stunts was my absolute favorite racing game for many years. My brother and I spent many days,months etc racing and building new tracks. The coolest part was doing the loops. I would create continuous loops, to where you would need to be in the right position to get onto the next loop.

Very fun game.

re: Stunts under Virtual PC

lexp — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:43:56 GMT

Stunts runs perfectly under Windows XP too.

Stunts is a GREAT game, it was released in 1990 (16 years ago!), and was the first game (and maybe the last one) with cool map editor (NFS lacks editor even in 2006!).