Subj : Re: Virtual machine
To   : Newtype Len
From : claw
Date : Thu May 23 2024 07:46:21

On 22 May 2024, Newtype Len said the following...
 
 NL> Last month I downloaded a game off of Steam called Shogo: Mobile Armor
 NL> Division. I always meant to play it when it was new in 1998, but a lot of
 NL> things just got in the way these last 26 years.
 NL> 
 NL> I didn't anticipate this, but Steam just sold a game that wasn't
 NL> programmed to work on a modern machine. Someone out there made some
 NL> patches that can get it to run on modern hardware, but my computer is
 NL> just too modern to handle 1998. I had a problem with Blade Runner not
 NL> generating targets in the target range because my clock speed was too
 NL> fast for the software to recognize, but this is a whole different league.
 NL> 
 NL> The only real solution is to set up a virtual machine and run it off of
 NL> that. I'm savy enough with computers to do this, but I wanted to go
 NL> outside of my expertise and learn what you need to do to setup and run a
 NL> virtual machine. Have any of you done it before, and what would I need
 NL> to get started?
 NL> 

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