[Coco] David Keil's CoCo3 emulator under XP Pro

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

You beat me to it.

I just started using VPC to evaluate Win XP SP2. The CoCo emulator(s)
running under Win 98 SE are a ways off for me.

I do not know the price of VPC as I got it with an MDSN subscrition. That
may disacourage many.

One item that might make it worth while is the ability to run Linux.

The enviorment for the guest OS is a computer with very limited resources.
No USB support is a big problem.

Otherwise it is just like a seperate computer. The Guest OS and programs are
installed just like on a real machine.

It is just like a real Computer, so much so that Microsoft requires an
additional license for it. You need two licesences, one for running XP on
VPC and one for the XP host (Seperate activation, I am glad that I have 8
left).

-- 
Stephen H. Fischer

Ken Carlin wrote:
> To those you you still trying to get David Keil's emulator to run under
> XP Pro, I have an alternative.  It's a little clumsy, but so far it's
> worked for me in my *limited* testing.
>
> I just found out about Microsoft Virtual PC, which allows you to create
> virtual machines and environments from within XP Pro.  It's main use
> would be for help desks or people that need to test software on multiple
> OSs but can't have multiple computers to do that.
>
> Anyway, I decided to create a virtual Windows98 machine and then install
> the 512K CoCo3 emulator.  I'm still working out the finer points, but I
> did get the emulator to boot just fine.  In other words, my XP machine
> was running Windows98 in a window, and within that window I was running
> the emulator - I was running an emulator from within another emulator.
>
> I'll let everyone know how well things run when I've had more of a chance
> to test it out.  But at least there's an alternative to multi-booting or
> swapping hard drives.
>
> --Ken