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DOSbox is better for DOS games.  You can route MIDI calls to any Windows-compatible MIDI interface while the program emulates an MPU-401.  That means if you have an MT-32 (I have 2!  :P ) or a good General MIDI tone module laying around (I have a Yamaha MU15XG which does General MIDI, Roland GS, as well as Yamaha XG), you can plug it into your favourite Windows-compatible USB MIDI interface and play games as they were meant to sound.

DOSbox also allows you to put speed governers on games so that when you play Space Quest 1 AGI, Roger Wilco isn't doing Warp 10 when walking down the halls of the Arcada.  (You know what I mean)

....sometimes it's funnier when you leave the speed controls off when playing Leisure Suit Larry though.  :P

I can personally attest that Ages of Empires I and II run perfectly fine in a virtual machine. ;)

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Who cares about games, if they were pre-Vista games you've already played them on XP. And if they were released in last 2 years they are probably compatible with Vista, so in turn compatible with Windows 7. Anything else should be gone if you're a true gamer :)

Anyway, if you game old games a lot, dual boot :P Not that I wouldn't like to see games running in VPC or VXP or XPM whatever it will be called.. but I don't see it as a major problem.

Corporate enviroments don't game anway .. yeah, right ;)

Age of Empires I and II (and Rise of Rome and Conquerors expansions) work flawlessly NATIVELY on Windows 7, why would anyone then want it to run in the XP Mode Virtual machine?

Btw, Virtual PC sucks at the core, (no 3D support like VMware Workstation 6.5) which already has this feature in the form of "Unity mode". And soon VirtualBox will get this too (Seamless mode). Not locked for XP guests and Windows 7 hosts and locked out for Home Premium users like Microsoft's "XP Mode".

Again, the whining by people who have never worked/supported I.T. in an Enterprise Environment.  This XP Mode is for Enterprise/Corporate to run legacy apps....not GAMES.

Get it?

Geesh!

Delmont

Actiually this really is geared more for the small to medium businesses. The big Enterprise IT groups can do this with MED-V and get the additional management and control that they need, Of course, if they don't need all the stuff in MED-V, this is another option for them.

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Gametap still doesn't support Windows Vista that well, and NONE of the Windows games play on x64.  That just sucks.  I discontinued my service in 2007 though.

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It's understandable why folks would like games that only run on properly in XP to work in a virtual XP environment, but even if it supported 3D acceleration this would not be optimal.  3D games ALWAYS need to run on bare metal for best performance and, as anyone who plays them knows, you're always wishing they were faster.  If you want to run games in XP dual-booting is the way to go.

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Victek, which winXP games do you know of that don't work under Vista? I'm not being snarky, I just don't know of any myself.

Any game that works in vista (which as far as I know, is any game that works on XP) should be fine with Win7 anyway.

Gorath,

Well, I do very, very little gaming so I can't offer a list.  I do have a copy of Quake 4 though, which pops up a message warning of compatibility problems when trying to install on Vista.  I haven't explored this to see if it can be made to work properly.

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