Virtual PC for Mac and CoH

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There was a thread earlier in this NG about running CoH in Virtual PC for
Macintosh.

Since our office is Macintosh (in most cases), we have had occasion to
acquire Virtual PC.

With the advent of the Dual G5 2GB processors, we are looking at upgrading
our current versions. But we didn't want to buy the copies and find that it
didn't work, so lo and behold you can download a 45 Day Free Trial of
VCirtual PC for Macintosh on the Microsoft website.

Off I go to download.

Download is a ~20MB zip file. No problem, MacOS X recognizes zip files, so
I unarchive it.

It is all .exe, .dll, and .msi files. Huh? Those won't run on a Mac. Maybe
they are disk creation programs for the Mac. So I put the zip on my PC and
run the Setup.exe

"Installing Virtual PC for Mac 45 day free trial"

Huh?

I'm running Virtual PC for Mac on my PC?

Huh?

Oh, by the way.....it doesn't include a operating system.

So the 45 day free trial will have a black screen requesting a boot file
for 45 days?

If I wanted to look at a black screen for 45 days, I would sign up for WoW.

 

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Janlee wrote:
>
> Oh, by the way.....it doesn't include a operating system.
>
> So the 45 day free trial will have a black screen requesting a boot
file
> for 45 days?
>
> If I wanted to look at a black screen for 45 days, I would sign up
for WoW.

Right. The reason that it doesn't include an operating system(besides
licensing issues), is that you are free to load any OS you want (any
Windows OS that is). There are quite a variety to choose from when you
consider Windows 2000 Pro and Server, Windows XP Pro and Home, Windows
2003 Server, Beta version of Longhorn, etc...

I use this product on Windows so that I can load beta versions of
software without affecting my main machine, or to run alternate
operating systems (like Windows 2003 Enterprise Server). But I'm not
familiar with the MAC implementation of it.

 

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Janlee wrote:
> "Scorcho" <toxaristhrasoe@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1108068650.861087.266580
> @g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
> > I use this product on Windows so that I can load beta versions of
> > software without affecting my main machine, or to run alternate
> > operating systems (like Windows 2003 Enterprise Server). But I'm
not
> > familiar with the MAC implementation of it.
> >
> >
>
> I may be missing something, but since it is Virtual PC for the Mac,
you
> would think that I should be able to run it on a Mac.
>
> Granted it's nice that I can run it on a PC, and put Linux, XP, XP
Pro, et.
> al. on it, and test different enviroments. But that is still not the
point
> (I think).
>
> It is called Virutal PC for Macintosh.
>
> Not Virtual PC for PC..........
>
> Okay, sorry, was ranting.......I apologize.

Right I was assuming they were the same product. I think you can run
any of the Windows PC operating systems on it (if it is the same as the
PC version), but you will need to have that particular OS install
media.

 

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"Scorcho" <toxaristhrasoe@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1108068650.861087.266580
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> I use this product on Windows so that I can load beta versions of
> software without affecting my main machine, or to run alternate
> operating systems (like Windows 2003 Enterprise Server). But I'm not
> familiar with the MAC implementation of it.
>
>

I may be missing something, but since it is Virtual PC for the Mac, you
would think that I should be able to run it on a Mac.

Granted it's nice that I can run it on a PC, and put Linux, XP, XP Pro, et.
al. on it, and test different enviroments. But that is still not the point
(I think).

It is called Virutal PC for Macintosh.

Not Virtual PC for PC..........

Okay, sorry, was ranting.......I apologize.