Henry,<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Henry Lowood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowood@stanford.edu">lowood@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Georgia">Andrew,<br>
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</font><font face="Georgia">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.<br>
<br>
Henry<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"></span></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Andrew Armstrong wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">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).
<br>
<br>
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?
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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 ;)
<br>
<br>
Thanks!
<br>
<br>
Andrew
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