Emulating Anything

Emulating Anything

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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Reviews are already WILDY out of date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/