rechecking re connectix virtual pc relative performance?

[chelseayr]

if you were on a 200mhz pci powermac and didn't have too much background things (extra extensions especially) loaded, would the emulation performance perhaps be similar to a 120mhz pentium or close?

the guest os would had been windows 95, running simple desktop apps or 'slower' games (I mean - for a quick example from my head now lets say yes to railroad tycoon 2 but no to quake 2) just for notes

 

[obsolete]

It's been a while, but I would guess closer to 75MHz equivalent than 120MHz. Hopefully someone can step in with some benchmarks.

 

[Cory5412]

I, too, would guess much slower than 120 for VPC on a 200MHz 604.

If you have everything on hand though I would say why not give it a try? Worst that can happen is the games you're looking at run poorly enough that they're unplayable-adjacent due to interface lag, but it probably really depends on the specific game, too.

VPC 4 if I remember right officially recommends a G3 at like 333 or higher for Windows 95 and newer which actually got me and my parents to return the copy they bought me when I had the 7300/200 the first time around. We swapped it for a copy of AppleWorks 5 at which point it occurred to me I still had to write my papers on the family computer because I didn't have a Mac printer and didn't want to deal with file conversions. (haha whoops.)

But I do expect a light 95 install would itself run fine on VPC a 604@200, even if 95-era games won't.

(Reminded yet again I eventually want to pop the dos/166 and a sata card in my 8500/601@100.)

 

[Phipli]

Reminded yet again I eventually want to pop the dos/166 and a sata card in my 8500/601@100.

Reminder : You want to put your 601@100MHz, SATA card and a Voodoo 1 in your 8500.