Author Topic: Windows games on a MAC  (Read 191 times)

Offline indian

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Windows games on a MAC
« on: March 07, 2000, 01:26:00 PM »
Here is a link that say you can play windows games on a MAC
 http://www.macwindows.com/windata2.html

Here is what it says

SoftWindows 95 5.0.3

3Dfx graphics accelerator card support for games (users of versions 5.0 - 5.0.2 must download enabler here).
SoftWindows 95 now uses the same setup dialog found in RealPC. This is an improvement, as it is easier to setup memory than in version 4.
SoftWindows is now Sound Blaster Pro and Sound Blaster 16 compatible.
Macintosh joysticks will now control PC games.(Already in VPC 1.0.1.)
DirectX (Windows 95 games) support is now faster
Pentium MMX support in now included, another area which will benefit games. (Virtual PC already had MMX.)
Version 5.0.2 added support for Plug and Play joysticks with Windows 95, sound import, ODI networking on G3 Macs, PowerBook 3400
PCMCIA Ethernet and other 3rd party Ethernet cards, and bug fixes (see the Insignia's update page).


Virtual PC 2.0

3Dfx graphics accelerator card support for games
Improved DirectX support: emulation of a new video_ adapter, (the "S3 Trio 32/64") and a new drivers makes DirectX usable in 2.0
Drag and drop file copying, from Finder to Windows desktop, and Windows to Finder.
2-way cut and paste (version 1.x could on cut and paste text from Mac to Windows)
Sound input (8-bit) is supported.
The maximum amount of memory you can assign to the PC has been raised from 64 MB to 128 MB.

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