Pixel Corps TV

Episode Guide

24

February 20th, 2008

Hello World

Programming a Mac offers lots of different choices. The best part is so many things are free to use without restriction.
 
23

February 11th, 2008

Emulating Anything

Modern emulators run all kinds of old and new software.
 
22

February 5th, 2008

Sharing Music

Music sharing isn't hard. Airport Express, Squeezebox, an old Mac and your iPod can help.
 
21

January 22nd, 2008

Myths

Origins of myths about Macs are often lost to time and too often people still believe something that hasn't been true for 20 years.
 
20

January 14th, 2008

Backmatic Automatic Backup

Backing up is something that everyone needs to do.
 
19

January 10th, 2008

Resolutions

Use the new year as an excuse to get a new Mac, get more storage or making a faster network.
 
18

December 24th, 2007

Trouble Shooting a Network

Craig wants to know all about configuring his network.
 
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February 11th, 2008

Emulating Anything

Hosts: John, Kenji, and Ben

Why?
Why not.
One Machine not 3.
On a MacBook you have all your environments.

What?
That one thing you need to run for legacy.
Compatibility Checking
Some fun game.
Anything really.

Reviews are already WILDY out of date
http://www.macworld.com/article/55484/2007/02/vmwarevsparallels.html

Why an emulator and not BootCamp?
BootCamp requires a partition.
Emulators don't need a physical disk.
Side-by-Side
Use Spaces to hold a whole window.

What choices are there for emulation
vmWare
Parallels
DOSbox
Cross Over
http://www.virtualbox.org/
Wine
MAME
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33091
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176560
SCUMM

What runs?
Windows
Linux
Solaris
DOS

Installation
licensing
Windows XP
Vista
Windows installs faster than Windows on hardware.

Performance
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBench...

Zork 1, 2, 3 .exe
http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Visicalc
http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

Asterisk
http://asterisk.org/

Gizmo Project
http://gizmoproject.com/