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

[Steve Batson]

I have another simple solution for running the emulator on a PC with Windows 
XP installed. Obtain or Create a Windows 98 Boot Disk and boot up CD 
Support. This way you can run the emulator from CD. If you need write access 
for the emulator, create a FAT partition and store the Emulator and it's 
files there. I've only done limited testing doing this, but it seems to work 
fine.

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at MindSpring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] David Keil's CoCo3 emulator under XP Pro


> 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
>
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