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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the
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Date: 2000/09/28
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In article <8qt1cn$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:17:25 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote:
> >everything Chris mentioned), while running under Windows. The
> >only significant piece I'm missing is gprof. And I seriously doubt
> >vmware can run Diablo II.
>
> Why? It's a general CPU virtualizer running a real copy of Windows on
> a partially simulated chip. It should run anything that Windows can.

See http://www.vmware.com/products/productfaq.html#games

One issue they *don't* mention is that most commercial games are written
as if they are going to be the only application running on the machine.
That means even if the emulation was great, you'd probably need loads
more memory and CPU to get the same performance. On my Win2k machine, I
had to upgrade to 256Meg of RAM to get rid of D2's disk swapping during
network games when loads of enemies are on the screen (just when you
*need* it to be running smoothly). The slowdowns were literally killing
me. It'd probably need loads more memory and a faster CPU if it also had
a second OS to deal with.

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