Aqua-Soft Forumsi know about pearpc emulating powerpc cpu and vice versa for virtual pc for mac os x, but is there a windows emulator for windows? i want to try out something fun with my old windows 98 cd and fool around without messing with partitions and running my current operating system at the same time.
request: windows emulator for windows.
search for vmware. It's not free, however.
Different versions of Windows, and/or Unix, Linux, et cetera.
My 1st question is..., "What do you mean by 'Windows emulator for Windows.' ?"
If you want to run other versions of Windows, or i386 processor-based OS, then yes..., VMWare or HyperOS are the way to go.
If you want to run a Mac OS, a windows emulator will not help you.
You will need PearPC or CherryOS - and I tried them both and PearPC is by far the suprerior but CherryOS does work and took me approx 1hr to install, configure, install Mac Panther & run the OS - for your Man emulation.
VMWare or Virtual PC.
Both will do the job just fine... both cost about the same as well when purchased without an OS pack.
One note... VMWare STILL does not have a VESA 2.0 compliant emulated video sub-system, so it does have some compatibility issues with certain versions of Linux and BSD based OS' like Darwin.
It's supposed to be fixed in the next major release, but they also said that when 4.0 came out.
I have both and will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
i know about pearpc emulating powerpc cpu and vice versa for virtual pc for mac os x, but is there a windows emulator for windows? i want to try out something fun with my old windows 98 cd and fool around without messing with partitions and running my current operating system at the same time.
Try this one:
It's a CPU emulator like PearPC is... Slower than VirtualPC or vmWare but free and does not need a x86 CPU to run on. Can take 10-15 Minutes to boot '98 on a 1 GHz PC, though.
i see that boshs can run on linux emulating windows. very helpful if i'm going to use linux later on. thanks. i'm going to play around with this.
I've heard Bochs can run Windows 95 and 98 from another version of Windows, however I'm not sure how to do this. Since it pertained to this topic I figured I'd ask it here. Does anyone know how to get Bochs to let me run Windows 95b or Windows 98 from my Windows XP computer?
I've heard Bochs can run Windows 95 and 98 from another version of Windows, however I'm not sure how to do this. Since it pertained to this topic I figured I'd ask it here. Does anyone know how to get Bochs to let me run Windows 95b or Windows 98 from my Windows XP computer?
The manual here has detailed instructions for installing (guest) 95 from floppies and 98 from CDs, both from a Linux host. With some cross-thinking you can recreate these steps easily from a Windows host.
hth,
herd