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Loading DOS Sound Card drivers under Virtual PC
Every now and then someone will contact me asking how they can get the Sound Blaster drivers loaded...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/07/2005
Skyroads under Virtual PC
Skyroads is a strange little game that I stumbled across a long time ago. The game play and graphics...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/04/2005
Another script to backup a virtual machine
Last week I posted a sample script that would save state a virtual machine, make a copy of it, and...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/04/2005
Night Raid under Virtual PC
Night Raid is a very nice remake of the old school 'Paratrooper' game - which I have never been very...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/02/2005
Installing Windows NT 4.0 Workstation under Virtual PC
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation is not particularly difficult to install inside of Virtual PC - however...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/01/2005
Why doesn't Virtual PC use the right refresh rate in full screen mode?
A number of people have noted that when they put a virtual machine into full screen mode under...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/28/2005
Alpha Centauri under Virtual PC
Around the same time that 'Civilization - Call to Power' was being released by Activision, Sid...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/25/2005
A simple script to backup a Virtual Server
A common question is how to quickly and easily backup a virtual machine under Virtual Server. There...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/25/2005
Civilization - Call to Power under Virtual PC
Moving on in the series of Civilization games under Virtual PC - we arrive at 'Civilization - Call...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/24/2005
Why can I only assign up to 25% of the CPU to my virtual machine? (under Virtual Server)
This is a question I get asked a fairly regularly. The scenario is that the user is running Virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/22/2005
Civilization II under Virtual PC
Civilization II was an evolutionary step forward from the original Civilization. Running on top of...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/18/2005
How to 'delete' a virtual machine under Virtual Server
By default when you 'remove' a virtual machine under Virtual Server, none of the virtual machine...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/18/2005
Running Civilization under Virtual PC
Civilization (by Sid Meier) is one of the original strategy greats of the gaming industry. In this...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/16/2005
The virtual machine MAC address changes under Virtual PC...
MAC address management is a tricky task with virtual machines. We need to be able to generate unique...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/15/2005
Installing Windows 95 under Virtual PC
While Windows 95 is supported under Virtual PC 2004 - there are still a few common problems to be...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/15/2005
MinerVGA under Virtual PC
MinerVGA is a simple but fun game - where you control a miner as he seeks his wealth so that he can...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/11/2005
Coding Corner: Compacting a disk part II
On Tuesday I posted some information about creating a 'disk compaction' script...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/11/2005
Alone in the Dark under Virtual PC
Released in 1993, Alone in the Dark is a classic thriller game - with a simple polygon based engine....
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/09/2005
Coding Corner: Compacting a virtual hard disk
Today I am going to go over a basic script for compacting a virtual hard disk. This script creates a...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/08/2005
DR-DOS under Virtual PC
DR-DOS is yet another DOS distribution, and one with a rather twisted history. To quote The...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/07/2005
The Elder Scrolls: Arena under Virtual PC
'The Elder Scrolls: Arena' is the first game in the Elder Scrolls series - the latest of which is...
Author: Ben Armstrong [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2005
Coding Corner: A basic Virtual Server script
Due to reader demand - I am going to try and start a 'coding corner' where I talk about programming...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/03/2005
Battle Bugs under Virtual PC
Battle Bugs is a fun real time strategy game (with the twist of being able to pause the game to plan...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/03/2005
Installing FreeDOS on Virtual PC
A number of people find that when they want to reminisce about the old days - that they no longer...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/02/2005
Enabling host disk cache under Virtual PC
When you are running operating systems other than Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 under Virtual PC you...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/01/2005
Why we emulated the devices that we do?
Inside of Virtual PC we provide a number of 'emulated' devices - like the S3 Trio video card and the...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/26/2005
Capture the flag under Virtual PC
Released in '92 - Capture the Flag - is a surprisingly high quality and very focused shareware game....
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/26/2005
Programmatically detecting host information from inside the guest under Virtual PC and Virtual Server
At various times it is convenient to be able to identify the host computer from inside of a virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/24/2005
Conquests of Camelot under Virtual PC
Conquests of Camelot: Quest for the Holy Grail is a classic Sierra adventure game. You use the mouse...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/21/2005
What I learned at the Windows Core All Hands meeting... (joke)
Well - today I went to the Windows Core All Hands meeting - where I got to listen to top executives...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/21/2005
Nero InCD is all better now
For a while now I have been convincing people that I have psychic capabilities. The usual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/18/2005
Virtual PC SP1 Networking problems (address "00:00:00:00:00:00" failed to initialize)
There have been a number of people reporting that when they start a virtual machine - they get the...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/17/2005
Tomb Raider under Virtual PC
Every now an then there is a game that runs surprisingly well under Virtual PC. Tomb raider is one...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/14/2005
Installing FixPack 15 and Virtual Machine Additions on OS/2 Warp 4
Once you have OS/2 up and running (as discuss here:...) the first thing that you should do is to get...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/13/2005
OS/2 Warp 4 Addendum
An associate of mine pointed out a couple of points that I missed few points for OS/2 installation:...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/12/2005
Installing OS/2 Warp 4 under Virtual PC
To install OS/2 Warp 4 under Virtual PC you will need to create a virtual machine with a 2GB virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/11/2005
What is up with selecting the 'Operating System'?
When you create a new virtual machine - you will be prompted to select which operating system you...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/10/2005
Rogue (the original) under Virtual PC
For those who do not know - Rogue is quite possibly the greatest 'old school' game of all time - and...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/07/2005
Using Shared Networking (NAT) with a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine
Virtual PC has a convenient feature called 'Shared Networking'. What this is is a small virtual NAT...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/06/2005
How to get sound working under Windows Server 2003 in Virtual PC
Windows Server 2003 does not include drivers for the Sound Blaster 16 emulated by Virtual PC (nor is...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/05/2005
The Need For Speed - under Virtual PC
No, this is not a post about how to speed up performance under Virtual PC. Rather this is a post...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/31/2004
Does it meet the bar?
When the team moved up to Microsoft from Connectix one thing that was quickly evident was that there...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/30/2004
BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004
When I first started working at Connectix, one of my favorite past times was to tease the CTO, Eric...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/29/2004
https://vpc.visualwin.com rocks!
'What Works and What Doesn't in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004' (https://vpc.visualwin.com/) is a great...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/28/2004
A Very Merry Virtual Server, umm Christmas
Well - my kids are both finally asleep - and 'Santa' has been to put presents in their stockings -...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/24/2004
I'm number 1! :-)
Well my father just emailed me to let me know that if you Google for 'Ben Armstrong' this blog is...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/23/2004
Please don't use /3GB - okay?
Every now and then someone will report that they are having problems launching more than 10 or so...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/23/2004