[X-Apps] Virtual PC 5 in 10.2.6

[Mark Johnson]

On 6/7/03 1:37 PM, "Jim Soriano" <jsoriano at sumbeach.com> wrote:

> Steven Rogers said...
> 
>> Anyone using virtual PC 5 in 10.2.6?  I'm using VPC 5.04 and haven't
>> booted it for a while.       <snippage occurs here>
>> I've pretty much decided I'm not going to upgrade anymore.
>> Looks too much like they're trying to turn it into a cash cow. So if it
>> won't boot, I'm probably going to erase it. Everything was backed up
>> outside VPC.
> 
> Hi Steven:
> 
> I use VPC 6.0 daily on my machine (TiPBG4-800, 1GB DRAM, OS 10.2.6, W2K
> with 512KB RAM allocation) and it works flawlessly.  I agree that
> previous releases of VPC had some real ugly performance issues -- I
> tried them all with both W98SE and W2K, and none of them really worked
> adequately under OS X.  But, I think Connectix got it right with VPC
> 6.0.
> 
> I use Microsoft Project 2K and IE (for those nasty sites with
> x86-specific Java) every day, with occasional use of Outlook and other
> Windows-specific apps.  With a totally clean install of both VPC and
> W2K I've (knock on wood) had zero blue screens.
> 
> FWIW and YMMV.
I am using VPC-6 with windows 2k Prof. It refuses to boot, locks up when it
flashes the dot by the printer. When I have to reboot I have to startup in
9.2 boot vpc then save and quit. This started some where around 10.2.4