Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders under Virtual PC

re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders under Virtual PC

InlandAZ — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:02:49 GMT

Another classic (I knew you were a gamer)- why not come over and join us at Gameboomers.com?

You've got a following over there :)

re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders under Virtual PC

New version of VPC — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:27:46 GMT

Do you know, when it is possible expect release new Virtual PC or other SP1 (the last version is VPC 2007 and SP1)? Many thanks for feedback. Jiri

re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders under Virtual PC

SvOlli — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:32:14 GMT

I know that this blog is about Virtual PC/Server, but if you want to play the old Lucasarts Adventures, it is much easier to use ScummVM (available at http://scummvm.org/).

re: Displays for games and graphics under Virtual PC

PeterP — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:44:11 GMT

Ben, I hope you'll excuse me for hijacking this post (because it is Hyper-V display related) to ask you a question,

I'm a one man IT business, my setup is probably somewhat like your home config. I run Windows Server, XP, Vista and maybe a few testbed OS's. I want to reduce my footprint both physically and environmentally, so virtualization seems a great way to go.

I'd like to reduce to just one machine and run Hyper-V Server for all my needs. But I need a good display spec on the Vista VM. With all virtualization products I've looked at the VM cannot get access to the full display hardware.

I know it's not there today, but could there be a way in a future release for either

a. Integration Components to support a higher video spec, or

b. Have Hyper-V allocate some hardware, e.g. video adapter, to a specific VM?

I ran a thread at http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?p=153081 in which I explain my reasons.

Sorry for the intrusion in this thread, but you seem like a guy who'd be interested to think about these uses for Hyper-V!

Peter