discussion Games Consols..... Too old?

[Guest]

You can try installing an older version of the OS in a virtual machine to run things that no longer work under your current one. Results aren’t guaranteed, but it might just work, depending on the machine or OS the older games need (and how powerful your current computer is).

 

[Ian M]

I have thought of that Jakko, Something about make a partition on the hard disk and have a duel boot system If I am not mistaken....?
The computer is more that powerful enough for even newer games to run with everything set to high! I might see if I can still find my win8 disc and have a go.
What could possibly go wrong. LOL

 

[Guest]

Not quite: a virtual machine is a program that pretends to be a computer, so that you can install other operating systems “inside” of that. Basically, you tell the program how powerful a computer the virtual machine should be (how many processor cores it can use, how much memory it has, how big a hard drive, etc.) and then you take your operating system installation disk (or ISO) and install it onto that virtual machine. After that, you start up the virtual machine and you get a window on your desktop with another desktop on it.

In short, you’ll have a second computer running on your actual computer. What’s more, you can have as many as you want — for example, if you have a game that needs Windows 95 but nothing later, just make a Windows 95 VM for it, while if another game needs Windows 7, make a second VM with that. If you need a program that only works under Linux but you run Windows on your PC, make a VM with some Linux version in it; and so on. This saves you the bother of having to shut down and restart the real computer to change operating systems.

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For example, that’s macOS 10.14 under which I’m running Windows 3.0 (the small window at top left) and Windows XP (the big one with the Teletubbies landscape).

Cheapest way to try: https://www.virtualbox.org — not as polished as some of the alternatives (VMWare and Parallels) but those aren’t free-as-in-beer

 

[Ian M]

Cheers Jakko, I will have a look into that.

 

[Mickc1440]

I have PS4 and still play regularly, keeps the hand eye coordination up to speed, these youngsters aren’t all that