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Febru13:33 EST #6 You have two choices under OS X.

Febru11:45 EST #5 VPC 5 is SLOW AS MOLASSES on my G4 867 under the most current OS X.I had almost no problems except the known bug with Epson printer drivers that was fixed by updating to 4.0.2. I've been running VPC 4 for months on a beige G3 running OS 9.1 and then OS 9.2. Nearly all the bugs were fixed with the 4.0.2 update, so you should download it and install it immediately after reinstalling VPC 4.

VPC 4.0 had numerous bugs with variable effects (depending on your hardware and installed software). Still, the reality is that the older version was a lemon and no libility for Connectix. I do think it needs more memory than they tell you to work optimally-over 100 MB per virtual machine. So I'm currently using 4.0.2 and the upgrade actually did work. I called Customer Support and the guy I talked to admited there had been some problems and advised an upgrade. I tried reistalling, checked the settings, and still had the same problems. I couldn't use anything requiring going online without freezes, couldn't use the system maintenace tools. On a G4 with plenty of RAM, Win98SE would freeze up and I'd actually have to reboot the Mac each time to get out.

Febru13:50 EST #3 I had the same frustration when I first bought VPC 4.

Is there a lemon law for absurdly non-functioning software? It still sits on my shelf, still brand-spanking new.ĭo you think I should request a refund? Are any of the good souls at Connectix reading this? -| I lost 3 precious weeks, smack at the beginning of a packed semester. IT NEVER WORKED PROPERLY.Ĭustomer support only suggested many times to re-install, which is great if you don't need the program or don't count on its functionality to help you do your "due tomorrow" homework. I picked up VPC 4 at the January '01 San Francisco MacWorld Expo as a brand-spanking new version over VPC3 to install on my G3 (Mac OS 8.6, then 9.1) on its own partition, etc., with 710 MB of RAM for the system and, therefore, plenty of RAM to allocate to VPC. Regards, Fred Kelder Catherine von Dennefeld Others include MacAlly and several game producers. but as is practice with most software providers, they left me out cold in the desert of unworkable products. It said: "Could not close because another version of VPC still active," which was utter nonsense. I had difficulty closing VPC 4 on OS 9.1/iMac.

Febru08:56 EST #1 Hope it works in the long run.

It adds your previous version’s set-ups to its list of “virtual machines.” The VPC Installer works as described above. I couldn’t upgrade my VPC 2 Windows 95 setup.) You must eliminate any saved VPC states before upgrading. This was annoying to someone like me who had VPC 2 with Windows 95, and purchased the full version of VPC 4 with Windows 98. (With VPC 4 you needed to use an upgrade version, not the full version.

It will be available to OS 9 if you reboot into that OS.Ī new feature of VPC 5 is that you can upgrade a previous version of VPC using the full version. OS X users who wish to run VPC 5 under OS 9 or OS X should install the program in OS X. Windows then looks at your “hardware” configuration and completes its installation process. The Windows 98 version opens Windows, which then requires you to enter the lengthier Windows 98 product ID key. When you first launch VPC, you must enter your name, organization, and the lengthy VPC serial number. You designate a location for the installation, select “Easy Install” or “Custom Install,” then click the Install button. The same goes with RAM, though the specific requirements depend on which 'guest' operating system(s) you're going to run.For OS 9 users, a new VPC 5 installation simply requires you to launch the Virtual PC Installer on the CD. Virtual PC is a quick emulator, but it's still something of a CPU hog, so the more the better. Connectix says you can run it on a 266MHz box, but recommends a 500MHz processor. The first preview release will expire on 1 July. Virtual PC for Windows is set to ship mid-June for around $199. All this without repartitioning hard drives. Users can install Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, Windows 2000, MS-DOS, Red Hat Linux, TurboLinux, Free BSD, OS/2 Warp, Novell NetWare or others, the developer promises.