Virtual PC Console

[Pelu]

Sup all... was getting an itch of playing Jane's USAF... but the game doesnt run well in vista nor in XP... so I was looking around the net, and the hopes are really bad... there is no solution at all... only play the game in one of the old windows, or Emulator...

I am trying the emulator one... but the Virtual PC Console isnt really running well... they detect generic devices and i dunno where to find the drivers to get the USAF running for windows 98...

 

[CP5670]

Does that game use 3D acceleration? Virtual PC doesn't support that at all.

You could try VMWare instead, which is supposed to allow it, but I had some trouble getting sound working in that.

 

[Pelu]

oh crap.... then i guess this game cant be played at all....

 

[mindcycle]

I bet you could pick up a PC running 98 on eBay for like $20. Or visit your local goodwill.

 

[postmortemIA]

it probably runs well in windows 2000. which you still can install on your computer without using virtual pc.

 

[Pelu]

hm... windows 2000... that sounds like a good idea... but I still with out understand why the backward compatibility is so bad with this game... and a planes one... that is so bad... considering how short the list of good flight sims are...

 

[JasonCoder]

getting games to work on windows 2000 was always hit or miss. I advise just looking for a cheapo win98 box... try curbside

 

[sonnygdude]

Ugh - this a bummer to hear. I have a copy of USAF I've been waiting to install after I finish a current campaign in IL2. Please post if you ever find a solution!

 

[PingSpike]

I never really had any trouble with games on 2000, but I really didn't play all that many games compared to some so maybe thats why.

It'd really be cool if some one made a "windows 98 box" like dosbox at this point, with say some kind of glide emulation maybe. Hell, I'd pay for that.

Its true an old windows98 machine is cheap...but I don't really have endless space to store an old crappy machine and who wants to monkey around with another junk PC everytime you want to play an old PC game for a half an hour?

 

[FalseChristian]

Perhaps this a dumb question but have you tried running the game in Windows 98/ME Compatability mode?

 

[Fox5]

VMWare has some sort of basic 3d emulation that might work.
That or Linux (say Ubuntu) with WINE might work.

 

[aka1nas]

VM Ware 6.5 is now out and officially has DX9 support for XP VMs.