Mac OS X Emulation Software: Hercules, Mame, Uae, Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator, Windows Virtual PC, Qemu, Virtualbox, Rosetta

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Hercules, MAME, UAE, Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator, Windows Virtual PC, QEMU, VirtualBox, Rosetta, VisualBoyAdvance, FCEUX, Multi Emulator Super System, Bochs, Mupen64Plus, DeSmuME, DAPHNE, Bsnes, Fuse, Yabause, VICE, SIMH, BoycottAdvance, SheepShaver, Snes9x, Nestopia, MacFC, Basilisk II, Mac-on-Mac, Mednafen, Genesis Plus, DGen, Sixtyforce, TI-NESulator, MacWise, AppleIIGo. Excerpt: Windows Virtual PC (successor to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, and Connectix Virtual PC) is a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product. In August 2006 Microsoft announced the Macintosh-hosted version would not be ported to Intel-based Macintosh computers, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintosh computers are no longer manufactured. The newest release, Windows Virtual PC, does not run on versions of Windows earlier than Windows 7, and does not emulate MS-DOS or operating systems earlier than Windows XP SP3 Professional. The older versions, which support a wider range of host and emulated operating systems, remain available. Virtual PC virtualizes a standard PC and its associated hardware. Supported Windows operating systems can run inside Virtual PC. Other operating systems such as Linux may run, but are not officially supported, and Microsoft does not provide the necessary drivers (called Virtual Machine Additions) for Linux. Connectix Virtual PC, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, and Windows Virtual PC are successive versions of the same software. Windows Virtual PC runs only under Windows 7 and emulates operating systems from XP Professional on, but the earlier Microsoft versions which run under older versions of Windows are still available, and can emulate operating systems older ...