[King Bob On The Cob]

Recently there has been talk that Virtual PC would be getting support so that I could talk to the GPU and therefore allow Mac users to play games on Virtual PC without cringing at the framerates counted in the single digits.

Now Microsoft has announced that XBox 2 will be running a 65 nm PPC chip from IBM. The same type that will certainly be found in Apple computers eventually.

Could Microsoft have acquired Connectix's Virtual PC for another reason than to allow multiple server OSes to run simultaneously? Like allowing backwards compatibility with XBox 1 games on a shiny new PPC processor?

Also, would this mean that we, Mac users, will see a hardware-accelerated Virtual PC when XBox 2 comes out? (Hey, Microsoft is just interested in selling licenses of Windows to anyone who'll buy, and if you made the tech, what will it hurt to release it?)



This sounded reasonable in my head at 1 in the morning so me, being the idiot I am, decided to let you, the forum browsers, comment on my inane rambling.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
Could Microsoft have acquired Connectix's Virtual PC for another reason than to allow multiple server OSes to run simultaneously?

Microsoft already said that it bought VPC so people who are running NT 4 specific software (software that doesn't run under 2000 or 2003 because of DOS dependencies, usually database stuff) could run NT 4 on top of a newer version of Windows.

I would imagine they're going to integrate it into Windows as a "Classic" environment.

[Hawkeye_a]

*nevermind

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
Could Microsoft have acquired Connectix's Virtual PC for another reason than to allow multiple server OSes to run simultaneously? Like allowing backwards compatibility with XBox 1 games on a shiny new PPC processor?

Seeing as how emulation generally sucks performance-wise and nobody's been able to do it terribly well with graphics cards so far, I'd say that's unlikely.