Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

re: Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Mark — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:38:38 GMT

I would like to know if games like silent hunter 3 and virtual skipper 4 will work under the current virtual PC or under the new virtual pc 2007 beta?

regards, Mark

re: Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Sergei — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:11:11 GMT

This game fails to run under Virtual PC on a modern computer. This line of code causes division by zero:

speed = speed * .5 / (stopTime# - startTime#)

I took my nibbles.bas from "MS-DOS 6.22 Supplemental Utilities".

re: Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Nicholas — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:09:50 GMT

Ben,

I can understand this. However having Visual Studio with emulator preconfigured within Virtual PC would be a great help for presenting and educational purposes. Unfortunately this is cannot be achieved with current version.

Nicholas

re: Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Benjamin Armstrong — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:34:33 GMT

Hi Nicholas,

The Pocket PC emulator is actually based on virtual PC, and as Virtual PC can not run inside of Virtual PC, the Pocket PC emulator can not run inside of Virtual PC either.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Nicholas — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:17:50 GMT

That is nice that Virtual PC developers have a time to play with cool toys like QBasic.

Now the question is: when the developers will play solitaire under Pocket PC Emulator within Virtual PC?

re: Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Mark Heath — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:52:45 GMT

This is surely the most compelling reason to use virtualization ever. Nibbles is an awesome game and I am surprised it hasn't become an olympic sport.

Long live Sammy & Jake!

(ps anyone who wants to try out my .NET port of nibbles check my website)