VPC compettion?

mediaman

I have just found this <a href="http://OpenOSX.com/wintel/"; target="_blank">Wintel</a> over at OpenOSX. This is a Pentium emulator.

it comes with FreeDos, Linux, OpenBSD installs. It's Windows compatable (although you have to 'get' the installers separatly). But the kicker is they plan to retail this for $30.

<a href="http://OpenOSX.com/images/win95_screen2.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>

So has anyone used this. Is it any good. Will it make VPC look bad, (Conectux (sp?) has been doing PC emulation for ages & the OSX version stinks), these people haven't.



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fran441

I want to try this! I wonder if it will recognize my graphics card! :eek:

x704

Wow that seems very interesting. I wonder if it's a poor preformer though like "Bluelabel". It's nice to see competition though. I wonder if FWB is going to do anything with "Real PC". It seems like it might be a dead product ... be nice if they stepped up to the plate & gave Connectrix a run for it's money.



Did you notice that once VPC won dominance over Softwindows that that's when they decided that Video Hardware support was not needed & took to much development? Competition is good. We need more of it in this area.

noahj

For a free version of the same software try here. <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/bochs/"; target="_blank">http://freshmeat.net/projects/bochs/</a>;



I will look at it more when I get home.

fran441

Has anyone tried this yet?

x704

[quote]Originally posted by NoahJ:

<strong>For a free version of the same software try here. <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/bochs/"; target="_blank">http://freshmeat.net/projects/bochs/</a>;



I will look at it more when I get home. </strong><hr></blockquote>



Seems like your right Macbochs is open source (take a look at it's faq here <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Bochs+FAQ&url=http://bochs.sourceforge.net/docs-html/faq.html)" target="_blank">http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Bochs+FAQ&url=http://bochs.sourceforge.net/docs-html/faq.html)</a>



This is rather dissappointing. I only say this because MacBoch has not progressed much at all in years & most likely this person is just repackaging it & not making any real improvements. Just someone looking to make a buck off of others work (although I could be wrong, we'll see ...).

x704

Hmmm, after further investigation OpenOSX (the company who sells WinTel) seems to repackage a lot of software (mostly linux/unix). I'm not sure if they do any enhancement on the products though. Well at least it is a real company, perhaps there is some hope that they'll actually add code to it (and not just repackage it).