UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

Mike Dimmick — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:56:00 GMT

You mentioned an x64 PC, so I'll ask this here ;-)

If the PC is booted in long mode, running the x64 edition of Windows XP/Server 2003, does Virtual PC work? Does it emulate 16-bit code? If it doesn't, can you say anything about your plans for 64-bit compatibility?

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

Sam — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:17:00 GMT

i LOVE this game so much. best game ever I think.

I've been trying to play this fgame for years, I'm going to try this slowdown tool...

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

Alex — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:45:00 GMT

This brings a tear to my eye... unrivaled, unmatched classics... games like that arent made any more :( I bought a Pentium 1 two years ago just so I can play Appocalyps

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

sdffd — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:06:00 GMT

DOSBox (google it, you'll find it and love it) is a better (and free!) way to run old DOS games like this.

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

Jon — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:30:00 GMT

These blogs are terrific. VPC has given a whole new meaning to 'multitasking' :)

VPC in itself has a lot of potential, specially in terms of "taking your desktop anywhere, anytime" I can already picture large corporations hosting VPC images of each worker on a central server, and people can just "take their computer on the go" by simply copying their VPC image into their laptop.

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

Steve — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:59:00 GMT

Mike,

VPC doesn't work under a 64-bit OS. VPC doesn't emulate any code 16-bit or otherwise, it emulates x86 hardware.

re: UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:43:00 GMT

Mike -

Steve is correct, I am running Windows 32-bit on my AMD64

Cheers,
Ben