[game_preservation] Windows 7 and Virtual PC XP

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

Not as part of the preservation project's data-gathering.  It's possible 
that the RIT group is working in this area.  The RIT data that I have 
seen is a qualitative grid of performance tests.

Henry

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Henry,

>

> Has there been any discussion in terms of universal virtual computers 

> (UVCs) and how you can create a universal test code to determine how 

> accurately the emulator is performing in relation to the original 

> hardware?

>

> -Devin

>

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>     Andrew,

>

>     the RIT team that is part of our Library of Congress has been

>     testing not XP, but DOS compatibility, as we work on preservation

>     of DOOM (among other games).   Andy Phelps from the RIT team

>     concludes, "DOSBox on Win7 is the best we can get on the modern

>     OS's."  There were still issues with drivers.  I'm not sure how

>     much you can conclude from this about XP, but it does address

>     early games.

>

>     Henry

>

>

>     Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>     So I've pre-ordered Windows 7 so it's not rediculously-expensive,

>>     instead just man-thats-expensive. It does, it says, come with a

>>     virtual way of running apps in an XP environment (I got the Pro

>>     or whatever version, but not just for this).

>>

>>     I was wondering, since I don't have the RC installed, does this

>>     work at all for any kind of games, or is it purely just the XP

>>     API with no real driver support? I know VirtualPC which you can

>>     run OS's off is basically like running on a stripped down box

>>     with a generic CPU, some RAM and a hard drive, but no graphics or

>>     sound support to speak of. I don't know if it is the same way of

>>     doing it, simply more built-in to the OS?

>>

>>     I just know some games won't work with 7 (like Vista, since they

>>     run a very similar OS model), and virtulising XP might be a cure

>>     for that, but only if there is hardware support in it.

>>

>>     I think once I research this a bit more (since as on XP now, I

>>     have very few problems running older games) I'll get digging into

>>     WINE and also emulator projects (DOSBox is obvious, others that

>>     are starting to provide hardware support or 3d emulation are

>>     worth looking at too) and might gather some resources for our

>>     list (bibliography website still pending ;) ). If anyone has a

>>     list of these it'd be welcome, before I get a new PC and slam

>>     into the ground running on Vista SP3, I mean, Windows 7 ;)

>>

>>     Thanks!

>>

>>     Andrew

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