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#1
February 22nd, 2005, 07:24 PM
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| Virtual PC recently installed Virtual PC in hopes of playin Need for Speed 2 on my mac. new to being a mac user and not to familiar with everything. i know it is emulating the videocar and such so was jus wondering does anybody might know why i am having problems trying to start the program to play.  |
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#2
February 22nd, 2005, 08:11 PM
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| even if you did get it to run, you aren't going to be able to play it as emulating a x86 processor isn't going to be fast enough. my suggestion, rent the game and barrow a friends playstation (unless you have one your self) |
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#3
February 22nd, 2005, 10:43 PM
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| Yup, NFS 2 was totally cool. Are you using Windows XP in VirtualPC? XP breaks lots of games. ** Try DOSBox, a free program that emulates MS-DOS, along with an excellent front-end called Radnor. I got Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within to run at full speed on my G5! Awesome. Doug
__________________ "Just as some newborn race of superintelligent robots are about to consume all humanity, our dear old species will likely be saved by a Windows crash. The poor robots will linger pathetically, begging us to reboot them, even though they'll know it would do no good." -Anonymous |
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#4
February 23rd, 2005, 02:50 AM
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| I don't think DosBox can deal with 3d games. I was using it for heretic, a very old 3d game à la doom. It's not really fast but sorta playable. However, it amazes me how ppl pay almost 100bucks more just to "test" their fav games. Why not get a cheap pc and do a lot more with it? VPC is only for ppl that have to use a x86 emulator on the road.
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#5
February 23rd, 2005, 07:42 AM
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| Trust me. VPC is not a viable option for much these days. Software demands are greater and greater, and VPC is going nowhere. On my G5 (see below) it emulates a 450Mhz 386. So it thinks it has the instruction set of a 15+ year old computer, running at 5 year old speeds. for the cost of VPC it'd be better bang for buck to buy either: xbox, ps2 or cheapo PC.
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March 6th, 2005, 05:08 PM
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#7
March 6th, 2005, 06:02 PM
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| VPC sucks - I can barely play final fantasy 7 (the game requires a 300 mhz processor) on it. It's playable on my 1 Ghz ibook, but it simply runs faster on my 800 mhz duron. I was hoping that win98 would run faster than win Xp on VPC, but it didn't. Only thing you can use VPC is for playing windows card games - everything else runs extremely slow. |
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#8
March 6th, 2005, 10:22 PM
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| I forgot to ask danri what kind of Mac were talking about. Was NFS 2 a 3d game? I thought it was 2d. The one I'm thinking of is an old old game. A DOS game. Fun. Hmm. . . Let me check the Underdogs. Doug P.S. Ford Racing is coming out for OS X. Looks good. Just a thought.
__________________ "Just as some newborn race of superintelligent robots are about to consume all humanity, our dear old species will likely be saved by a Windows crash. The poor robots will linger pathetically, begging us to reboot them, even though they'll know it would do no good." -Anonymous Last edited by ex2bot; March 6th, 2005 at 10:28 PM. |
