[game_preservation] Windows 7 and Virtual PC XP

[Devin Monnens]

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> 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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