Wondering if anyone can give me some perspective on VM and old OS like W9X.
I want to play some old DOS/Win9X era games, like Build engine games (Doom, Duke Nukem, etc), and also some of the early 3D engine games (Quake 1, Half life 1, etc).
I read somewhere that people make their new PC that has virtualization support play the old games on the old OS (like Win95) on a virtual machine.
I don't understand how virtualization works. Wouldn't the virtual OS (Win95 or DOS) need to have drivers that support the hardware of your PC? That seems impossible, as no Phenom II/Nahelem CPU-based system would have drivers for Win9X or DOS.
Also, how does gaming from the early 3D era work on virtualization (like Quake 1). If one wanted to run GL Quake, you needed a special 3D accelerator (3DFX, Verite, etc) to play those. Although the early stuff was all PCI, there was also AGP, and there is no physical way to connect an AGP card to a modern system. So I'm assuming one would haveto stick with PCI stuff???
I actually have a good old machine I can use for old school gaming, but I thought if my rig has Virtualization support (it does), multicores, and plenty of RAM, I should be good to go, but the theory of it all kind of eludes me.
I should mention I'm running Vista 64 on a Phenom II CPU based setup with 4Gig RAM.
I want to play some old DOS/Win9X era games, like Build engine games (Doom, Duke Nukem, etc), and also some of the early 3D engine games (Quake 1, Half life 1, etc).
I read somewhere that people make their new PC that has virtualization support play the old games on the old OS (like Win95) on a virtual machine.
I don't understand how virtualization works. Wouldn't the virtual OS (Win95 or DOS) need to have drivers that support the hardware of your PC? That seems impossible, as no Phenom II/Nahelem CPU-based system would have drivers for Win9X or DOS.
Also, how does gaming from the early 3D era work on virtualization (like Quake 1). If one wanted to run GL Quake, you needed a special 3D accelerator (3DFX, Verite, etc) to play those. Although the early stuff was all PCI, there was also AGP, and there is no physical way to connect an AGP card to a modern system. So I'm assuming one would haveto stick with PCI stuff???
I actually have a good old machine I can use for old school gaming, but I thought if my rig has Virtualization support (it does), multicores, and plenty of RAM, I should be good to go, but the theory of it all kind of eludes me.
I should mention I'm running Vista 64 on a Phenom II CPU based setup with 4Gig RAM.
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