Is funny how people say is old and not usable I am using daily i5 2500k with 16gb ram and rx 570 for daily tasks and light gaming 😃😃 now thinking about upgrade to i7 2600k because when I install some game it takes 2-5 hours it depends from size of the game sure but think i7 will help too

I just can't believe how old 6th gen systems have gotten, My fastest, newest computer I own is my 6th gen. Upgraded from a i5 6400 to a i7 6700k with a GTX 1080. It has certainly served me well and will continue to do so for years.

That GX1 is a really cool find, I not to long ago got myself a GX110 running a 933Mhz P3 to join my DELL Empire and it's been a amazing Machine. (It's the thinner DT form Factor)

I'm not sure which version was included with Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate, but if you enable "windows XP mode" in win 7 Pro/Ultimate, it installs MS Virtual PC and you can install multiple different OSs within. It really was pretty cool for the time, especially since you could run some XP Mode apps as though they were installed on Win7. Also I use virtual machines on a daily basis for work now in Azure (microsoft's cloud offering) but I also play around with various different VM hosts. Tons of fun

8:44. I got one old pc from our local school (Fujitsu Siemens Celsius w350), and it also had one dvi add in card. it was actually pci-e 8x low profile, since that pc has an option to install low profile cards in it

This was my first real notebook ❤‍🔥Today I have a T490, I love them 😁

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thanks for the thorough walk through, this was very fun TRR! Windows ME was great, I just loved the new and refreshed icons back in the day and think it was first OS with Thumbnails for photos!

3:20 ahh yes that was the absolute best!! software, hardware, movies, games.. just reading the back in the store and then on the way home too! (if you weren't driving, as mostly I wasnt, and was in the back seat back in the day!)

Sorry for the late comment - in order for 8GB to work, you need a two bank memory sticks (2rx8). Majority are 1rx8 sticks and those won't work in 2x4GB configuration in this machine :)

I didn't know even that this came in a big box package?

Very interesting.

I have recently been attempting to capture the recovery discs from an HP Slimline s3000n. Unfortunately, I think there is something wrong with the motherboard because it randomly turns off. I've tested different RAM and a different power supply with the same intermittent results. Because of this I've been unable to create and validate the recovery discs. I have attempted cloning the drive to a VHD and booting in a virtual machine with VirtualBox, however, Vista Bluescreens on startup. If I conduct a system restore from the harddrive in the VM, Windows installs, however when it gets to the HP configuration, it detects improper hardware and fails to continue booting. Any tips?

Started playing with virtual machines in about 2007 using virtual box. Surprisingly it looked almost identical to this. I never used Virtual PC, but it's amazing how similar the UI is/was. I still used Vbox ALL the time for lots of different reasons.

I do believe that first system the HP does Support a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 socket 478 533 FSB. And it does for sure at least Support 2 GB of DDR memory. And the dell can definitely be upgraded to some sort of Pentium III if you wanted to

Hahaha. I love Windows ME. At the time it worked well for me and today in my PIII retro PC steel use it. I must admit than windows 98 is more stable, but Win ME has some modern features. One caveat is than M$ ditched some MSDos features. Locally I have a 4 GB big foot with MSdos 6.22 + win 3.1 for Dos stuff.

Please scan that box and dvd covers upload it to the internet 😚

That Dell Optiplex GX1 is an awesome retro gaming machine as it is. No need for sb16, as the integrated sound card is ISA PNP, so you can use unisound driver. The ATI rage pro has decent opengl acceleration, with driver 4.11 (GLquake and all Quake 2 based games play good), plus ATI patches for Tomb Raider 1, Formula 1 etc. And the Optiplex GX1 have a keyboard shortcut like a turbo button, to disable, in pure ms-dos, the L2 cache for old dos speed sensitive games. Of course, that "COAST module" is the video upgrade memory from 4mb onboard to 8 mb total video memory.

Hi do you know what the audio chipset is on this laptop? I cannot find drivers for it for the life of me and I do not know what audio card it has.

I remember this software getting released free of charged so I'm surprised to see a physical box copy that presumably cost money.

that soft its more easy to use than hipervisor and more easy to implement as test lab or controled enviroment

VirtualPC 2004 was free software shortly after this.

I love DELL Notebooks from this era. Very good screens, quality, performance and upgrade abilities. I´m still using the big version of this - the "Inspiron 1720". With Penryn Core 2 Duo, 6GB RAM and 1,25 TB SSD (two drives). I love this machine. It´s My best Movie Player.

Was fun to see somebody discover the MSX platform without prior knowledge and stumble through things! Also great to see a bit of Bombaman (I did the music for it and general producer work) :)

i belive vinesauce used virtual pc in particular for his 'destroying' windows stuff.

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 was awesome! I had all older OSes on Virtual Machines to fiddle with, and I managed to use it up to Windows 7. It would no longer run in Windows 10 so I replaced it with VirtualBox, which has its kinks but is definitely superior, and the Snapshot functionality is something I can no longer live without.

That brings back some good old fun memories. I used Microsoft Virtual PC 2003 which I got a "copy" of, and then in 2007 when it was free. I had a fully loaded XP Pro system with as much RAM as I could in 2004 which was 1GB. I had three HDD's and an DVD-RW drive at the time, so I dedicated one of my 30GB drive to the virtual PC's. I had VM's for everything from Windows 3.1, Windows NT4, and Windows 95 to 2000, and Windows Server. Back then I was playing around with Linux so had a couple of Linux VM's as well. Only drawback was that I had to move the VM's over to my Windows 2000 Server due to drive space back then, so was moving them around a lot and having to add the VM back to it. I still use the 2007 version on my Windows XP 64-Bit custom built retro system with 8GB RAM, and a 1TB drive with lots of different VM's such as Windows 3.1 to 2000, Windows NT4 & Windows 2000 servers, Microsoft Back Office Server, and various old Linux Distros. It's better in someways than having to run it on original hardware, but has lots of drawbacks compared to actual hardware. As always another great video, and look forward to the next one.

Back when I first discovered virtual machines, I used Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, and eventually VMware Player, to test out various Windows beta builds (mostly Windows 7 and 8 builds) since I didn't have a spare PC to test them out on. These days, I still use VMware to mess around with older Windows beta builds (e.g. Chicago, Memphis, Whistler, and Longhorn) and to use old software on both the beta builds and the final versions.

MS Virtual PC, i never seen as Retail version, because it was free to Download. Thanks for thet Video.

Nice! :) I can imagine it gets a bit painful with read/right speed on a spinning hdd when you use a couple of wm:s at the same time!

have you tried this with the service pack yet?

Not my cup of tea, but probably from my own lack of knowledge (I'm more of a Linux guy since 2003). Amusingly enough, I may have a use case for it. Thanks for a clue.

It is so cool you are covering this! If you happen to have a real Voodoo 1 or 2 pci card though the Mac version of virtual PC 2 and 3 will see and use that card for 3d acceleration

Who remembers "Windows XP mode" ?. Which was a free VM that MS gave away for Windows 7.

Microsoft "merged" or "purchased" or "acquired" a TON of great products from the marketplace. Always "voluntarily" on the part of the other company ... You know ... Voluntarily like with a gun to your head. Then they also usually destroyed them only a year or 2 later and removed them from the market. Sometimes they embedded the other software into Windows later ... Sometimes they just threw it away.

Microsoft Virtual PC was neat actually, but my preference still holds on VMWare and VirtualBox.

@24:03 No, YOUUUU have a tight PCI port..... No I Couldn't resist, yes I'm 5...... months late lol

Neat I didn't realize it was ever sold in retail stores. My only experience with Virtual PC 2007 you can download from the Microsoft website, used it for 98se until VirtualBox so I could somewhat properly play curtain games. These days its my Pentium III and a x86box recreation of the Pentium 233mmx we had back in the 90s. I still use Microsoft's for accessing virtual hard drive clones of a few of my past machines/ old installs of there OS

Installing three OSes at once, hard drive thrashing like the pit at a Slayer concert.

I used Connexcix VPC on a mac PB 3400c in the 90's to manage Novel as a JR sysadmin at one of my first IT jobs out of college.

We used this software in my MCSE class in High School. That way we all had a virtual XP box that we could back up if we ruined it.

I would dabble around a bit with this software before I bought period correct systems listed on eBay further down the line.

Used to use VPC 2007 a ton back in the day! Had so many VMs; mainly XP installations! And the idea that you could run a PC in a PC was mind-blowing back then and of course now, it's a commonplace! Take me back!

I remember using VPC 2007 back in the day, and it was fun. I kinda miss that software. Awesome video.

Hyper-V is essentially just the latest version of Virtual PC / Virtual Server rebranded. Microsoft tried to buy VMWare first by some accounts and when a deal couldnt be reached, they bought Connectix. VirtualPC was originally a Mac product, they also made a Playstation emulator which was sold to Sony.

Nowadays, we have VirtualBox and VM Ware.

I used Virtual PC 2004 with XP and when I used Windows 7 I found about Virtual PC 2007 and I used it a lot. Aside playing wit various old Linux distros and old Windows versions (Win3x, Win9x, Me), I played many hours dos games because it was very compatible with msdos. Also, if I remeber correctly, the XP on Windows 7 x64 was infact Virtual PC 2007 with a XP installation. I guess I still have archived all the versions and SP of Virtual PC somewhere and a full XP virtual Hard drive with the license for use in Windows 7.

nice, I messed.with HyperOs 2004 before Vpc 2004 back in the day. winworld has vpc 2004 2007 hyperos was more of a boot manager that cloned entire operating system. depending on hyperos version 2pc 4pc 10pc 100pc would determine how manyvyou could install and quick reboot into your choice win98 xp etc. Vpc was better in the reboot and save state but with a bit of fafing around was another of fun installing vpc on a hyperos system. I also have the hardware version hyperdrive 4 which does a great job with these environments

This looks like it runs Windows 98 and 2000 much better than Hyper-V