Virtual PC 2.1.2 update?

[Anonymous Freak]

Hrm. I now have a copy of Virtual PC 2.1 (thanks to atireduser!)

But...

I really want to run it on my B&W G3, in Mac OS 8.6. Unfortunately, there is a known incompatibility which requires the (free) 2.1.2 update for it to run in 8.6.

Well, Connectix is now long gone; and Microsoft doesn't offer up any old Connectix-era updates. Anyone have this updater lying around on some forgotten corner of a disk?

(P.S. I'm posting this from the G3, in 8.6, via Classilla. Thanks, ClassicHasClass!)

One fun factoid from the ReadMe that I hadn't known before: Virtual PC 2 supports direct hardware access of 3Dfx cards! It wasn't until 10 years later that VMware got the ability to directly access a 3D accelerator.

 

[macgeek417]

The closest I can find is a 3.0 updater CD.

 

[macgeek417]

OK, I found 2.1.3, would that work? It can update from 2.0-2.1.2 to 2.1.3.

 

[macgeek417]

Oh, and heres the link to the full ~1.5 SIT file:

http://joshdeprez.com/VPC213U.sit

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Thank you very much! (I hadn't realized there was 2.1.3...

 

[macgeek417]

No problem!

I just had some time to kill while waiting for these stupid ~250MiB XviD anime episodes to download... Stupid slow connection!

 

[ClassicHasClass]

You could still get very good performance with VPC3 -- I keep it around to play older Windows games. Believe it or not, on my MDD G4 this is enough to run Shogo MAD in Windows 98 with software rendering at a frame rate that isn't atrocious. (I don't need it as much now thanks to my wonderful OrangePC 620 and the 400MHz K6-III I put on it, and I have the Mac native Shogo anyway, but at the time it was great stuff.)

VPC4 ruined that and the rest of the releases sucked for games.

 

[quinterro]

I used to run it with a Voodoo2 card. It was pretty nice for games that supported that card.

May have to resurrect my Beige G3/400 to see what kind of damage I can do.