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Sid Meier games in VPC 7

Source: microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc
Sent: 07/20/2006
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

I know Alpha Centauri works with VPC 7, but does Alien Crossfire work?
I've heard two different stories, but I can't get it to work on my
iBook G4. Any ideas?

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Re: Sid Meier games in VPC 7

Sent: 07/20/2006
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

* 133 MHz Pentium processor or equivalent
* Windows 95 or 98
* 16 MB RAM
* 50 MB hard disk space
* SVGA with 1 MB VRAM
* Sound card
* 4x CD-ROM drive
* Full version of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I know 3D support doesn't work for games, but that doesn't seem to be
the problem. I think the problem is with booting the game itself.

Helpful Harry wrote:

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> In article <(email address - cut out)>,
> (email address - cut out) wrote:
>
> > I know Alpha Centauri works with VPC 7, but does Alien Crossfire work?
> > I've heard two different stories, but I can't get it to work on my
> > iBook G4. Any ideas?
>
> VirtualPC is not designed to run games, and definitely won't run games
> that need 3D / graphics acceleration hardware.
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Re: Sid Meier games in VPC 7

Sent: 07/20/2006
From: "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com>
Message:

What is the guest OS? If XP try running in Win98 compatibility mode.

<(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

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>I know Alpha Centauri works with VPC 7, but does Alien Crossfire work?
> I've heard two different stories, but I can't get it to work on my
> iBook G4. Any ideas?
>

Re: Sid Meier games in VPC 7

Sent: 07/20/2006
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

I'm running the game in a Windows 98 host OS. What happens is that it
loads the game properly until it's time to go into the game itself.
Then a picture of a ship (a load screen) pops up and it freezes at that
point. It doesn't freeze the comp. It just never loads the game. I
tried downloading all of the patches. It had no effect.

Alpha Centauri works perfectly fine without the expansion, so I don't
understand why Alien Crossfire won't work (espicially when others have
reported it working with no problem on VPC).

Colin Barnhorst (remove) wrote:

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> What is the guest OS? If XP try running in Win98 compatibility mode.
>
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> >I know Alpha Centauri works with VPC 7, but does Alien Crossfire work?
> > I've heard two different stories, but I can't get it to work on my
> > iBook G4. Any ideas?
> >

Re: Sid Meier games in VPC 7

Sent: 07/21/2006
From: Helpful Harry <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

In article <(email address - cut out)>,
(email address - cut out) wrote:

VirtualPC is not designed to run games, and definitely won't run games
that need 3D / graphics acceleration hardware.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Show quoted text

> I know Alpha Centauri works with VPC 7, but does Alien Crossfire work?
> I've heard two different stories, but I can't get it to work on my
> iBook G4. Any ideas?

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