John Wilson wrote:

Looks interesting... I'm also checking it out. Couple of possible problems, though. a) all my legacy software is on floppies, and I don't presently have a floppy drive!

Before I got my latest PC, I knew it wouldn't have a 5.25 inch floppy. So I went through all my 5.25 floppies that I wanted to keep and made images of them using WinImage before I trashed the old PC and hooked up the new. I am currently doing the same thing with my 3.5 floppies because the days of the floppy drive are obviously numbered. I'm sure you can find a friend that still has a 3.5 and do something similar.

b) The Evaluation Guide tells me ; "Virtual machines also don't see the PC's hardware video card as a native device, so users can't install their own video card drivers. Nor are SCSI devices supported in a virtual machine". This video card business might deny the operation of Fractint? (In a native virtual DOS installation)? But you have tried this in the Connectix version?

This is exactly why is DOES work! The DOS program THINKS it has direct access to an S3 card because that is what Virtual PC emulates. It doesn't matter whether you have an ATI card, an nVidia card, or anything else. Any software running in Virtual PC will think you have an S3 card. What they are saying above is that you cannot try to install drivers for your ATI or nVidia within your Virtual machine. Also, it does work with SCSI hard drives. However, there is a lot of hardware that it doesn't recognize, e.g., SCSI scanners, certain USB devices, etc. Yes, I have tried all of this on my Connectix version. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to get 1600x1200 in Fractint. All modes up to 1280x1024 work using SF5, SF6, etc. Nick