Wmware anyone ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> See: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/VMware

Ubuntu is your friend :o) Thanks for the link...

> VMWare is a nice piece of software. It's not hard to setup...

Ah, some good news at last ! :-)

> but you do have to be somewhat familiar with compiling kernels to get it
> working. 

Oh oh... :-/

> You don't have to compile your own kernel, but you do have to
> have the kernel development stuff handy in order to rebuild the VMWare
> kernel modules.

Ah, I guess it's easy enough to download from synaptic ? How are the
relevant packages called ? Maybe the wiki page should give more info
about this..

> As long as you have a fast enough machine and enough memory

The game used to run super fine on my Pentium one, 200MMX with 32MB of
RAM and win 95.
The machine is now an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with 512 of DDR-RAM, over two
year old already but hopefully will work... if not, ebay is your friend
as ever and I will get a more recent P4 board and CPU...

> , you should be able to run your game. You may run into some sound problems
> though... In the past, I've solved that by having VMWare use /dev/dsp1
> instead of the default, but I have a SB Live card, which has 2 DSPs...

Thanks, a car game just woldn't have been as much fun, without engine
noise ! :-/

> I would try a VMWare demo before buying it for your intended application. 

Under way... "only" 30 minutes remaining... :o(


Vince