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[zirkoni]

Decided to try this on Win7 with Windows XP Mode.



Now I can play Captain Dynamo and save my progress any time I want.

[dosraider]

Sunday morning 13/06/2010 09.25 11°, some clouds,
and you're behind your PC playing games....?
TSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssssssss

Good news is, from now on you're the one who will answer jack07's questions about the meaning of life and VPC.

[zirkoni]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Sunday morning 13/06/2010 09.25 11°, some clouds,
and you're behind your PC playing games....?
TSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssssssss

No, actually I'm behind my PC writing about dye-sensitized solar cells. I just got bored of writing...

Originally Posted by dosraider

Good news is, from now on you're the one who will answer jack07's questions about the meaning of life and VPC.

[hunvagy]

Yeah, the impact may be less, but I think that really depends on the game you are running. I would love to see if this setup can handle Redguard for instance. Or Archimedean Dynasty with 3DFX turned on. I meant this more resource intensive games, that could choke the hardware, not Nicky Boom And I second dosraiders notion, zirkoni can be the next tour guide

[jack07]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Good news is, from now on you're the one who will answer jack07's questions about the meaning of life and VPC.

So no more of dosraider's annoying remarks? Great, where do I subscribe?

Jokes aside, I believe this thread provides many useful info about playing games on VM.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by jack07

So no more of dosraider's annoying remarks?

As you wish, from now on I'm outta here.
Even if I had several other things to tell you, your *guide* is still pretty flawed and certainly incomplete.
As you seem to be the kind that wants all on a silver platter and don't want to make an effort to learn ...

Bye bye.

*laughs*

[jack07]

Originally Posted by dosraider

As you wish, from now on I'm outta here.

Now, don't be like that. You were making fun of me all the time, now I make one joke and you're out of here. Why would you be the only one who can joke around?

I've was always very thankful for any help I got, even if it was posted in-between mocking remarks. If I took them seriously, I would probably be long gone. Don't take it seriously - of course I don't want you gone.

[dosraider]

[Echo mode]

Originally Posted by dosraider

*laughs*

[/Echo mode]


Maybe I should have put that in bold, extra large font?

Anyway:

Originally Posted by jack07

So no more of dosraider's annoying remarks?

Tsss tss tsss, in ya dreams, in ya dreams.........

Originally Posted by jack07

6.) Install dos games:
- burn the games on a CD

Think 5 secs (or maybe 5 minutes ...) about what you're writing here, burning a CD to do this?
There are much better, cheaper and faster solutions then this ......

[jack07]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Tsss tss tsss, in ya dreams, in ya dreams.........

I knew it was too good to be true...

Back to the subject, of course you can also use some disk image emulator (like Daemon Tools or MagicISO) to mount a game's folder as a CD or share a folder as you pointed out. But I thought everyone knows how to burn a CD so I included it in the guide. But as I said, maybe I'll modify it.

Anyway, what do you think about using DOS VM as I described in 35. post? This one is pretty straightforward, it takes only about 5 minutes to set it up, doesn't use much RAM, plus you kinda get the full screen too using the low resolution trick.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by jack07

Anyway, what do you think about using DOS VM as I described in 35. post? This one is pretty straightforward, it takes only about 5 minutes to set it up, doesn't use much RAM, plus you kinda get the full screen too using the low resolution trick.

You already know what I think about the whole idea of your 'snapshot' machine, or better said cheat machine.
It ain't worth the effort.
There was a time that VPC was useful to have around for the games that wouldn't run nicely in dosbox, or even wouldn't run at all in dosbox, but dosbox is so good now that VPC ain't needed anymore for dosgaming.

For gaming VPC is only interesting for recalcitrant W9x games that won't run on modern hardware/OS.