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Virtual PC 7 Preview?

Thursday May 13, 2004 4:09 am PDT by Arnold Kim
MacBidouille claims to have seen a demo of Virtual PC 7.0 for the Mac.

The software was apparently demoed for French resellers by Apple and Microsoft representatives.

New features include: Better support of Peripherals (especially USB), notably faster than previous version, should support dual processor as well as G5 based systems. The most notable new feature however is native support for graphic cards. This will reportedly allow video operations to be handled natively rather than through emulation.
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Rob Nance
101 months ago
Native video card support sounds potentially awesome. I doubt I'll be able to play Half Life 2 on my dual G5, but I might be able to keep my PC in the closet a little longer as far as some less intensive games.

I'm really looking forward to this release.
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phampton81
101 months ago
I know everyone hear scoffs at the idea of playing video games on the mac, especially through VPC, but this may make it possible to play a few not so new games on the mac that aren't ported already, I see this as good news.
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Thanatoast
101 months ago
hallelieuah! i'm not a hardcore gamer, so i don't need huge amounts of power, but a enough to run a few older games would be nice. :) hope this pans out!
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crap freakboy
101 months ago
hope this is true, Half-Life on a mac would be the dogs.
unfortunately I'll need something a little faster than this old sawtooth....bolo anyone?
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aafuss1
101 months ago

Native video card support sounds potentially awesome. I doubt I'll be able to play Half Life 2 on my dual G5, but I might be able to keep my PC in the closet a little longer as far as some less intensive games.

I'm really looking forward to this release.

I wonder if the Windows version of VPC would be updated with Native video card support , just like the Mac version will have.
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Veldek
101 months ago
It’s good to see that most of the new games, especially the top ones are ported to the Mac. But there are some older ones which don’t need much horsepower. For them, VPC 7 seems to be ideal. So, I’m looking forward to it!
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nsb3000
101 months ago
What I would like to know is whether it will still be a true "virtual PC", or whether we will be limited to running just Windows on it.

Otherwise, it sounds like Microsoft has added some nice features...

EDIT: Compensated for dyslexia
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windowsblowsass
101 months ago

I wonder if the Windows version of VPC would be updated with Native video card support , just like the Mac version will have.

:confused: umm there is no windows version it wold be pointless to emulate a windows machine on a windows machune
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legion
101 months ago

:confused: umm there is no windows version it wold be pointless to emulate a windows machine on a windows machune


Maybe you should double check that...
There is a windows version and the point is for software developers who need to test against multiple systems or who don't want to corrupt their original system. Also, you can install Linux in VPC for windows (multiple distros.)

Time to think bigger..
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legion
101 months ago

What I would like to know is weather it will still be a true "virtual PC", or weather we will be limited to running just Windows on it.

Otherwise, it sounds like Microsoft has added some nice features...


whether not weather (unless this really is about the chance of rain or overcast skies)
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