My first was a Sinclair ZX 81 with 1K of memory used a standard cassette drive for storage. Upgraded it to 64K and Streaming Tape Drive. Upgraded to C64 -> C128 - Amiga 1000 -> Amgia 500 -> Amiga 2000 -> Amiga 4000 (Still have the A4000 and ZX 81). Currently using MackBook Pro.

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Drivers can be an issue for older hardware. I have found that VMs are good for most all of my needs. But for gaming, it is all but worthless since it has only basic support of DirectX and limited video hardware. :sigh: It would be great if Microsoft would give direct support of the native video card in VPC. Then we could run most all apps including games in the VPC. ;)

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Yes, 8 gigs is cool. His system is a dual core Q6600 with the ATI 3650 512 meg video card. 650 gig HD and 21 inch HP monitor. My work computer is a custom built system with quad core Q9450 and 4 gigs of system memory and nVidia GF 9800 GTX+ 512 meg. I have solved all my compatibility issues with Virtual PC. Since I have to test all my software on everything from 2000 to Vista 64, VP is a god send to me. Before Virtual machines, I had to maintain separate systems to test my software on. :)

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I run Vista Ultimate 64 on my office computer. I also have the beta of Windows 7 installed as a dual boot with the Vista drive. I have Virtual PC 64 installed with a host of operating systems including XP Pro, Win 2000 and 98. I have Visual Studios 2008 installed in Vista 64 and VS 6 installed in XP (VPC 64). All is good! My son has a brand new HP Vista Home Premium 64 system and has has compatibility issues with some of his games. I solved his problem by adding a second drive and installing the 32 bit Vista and he can boot into it when he wants to play the few games that wont function correctly on 64bit Vista. The only real draw back to this is that he loses half his system memory in 32 bit mode (8 gigs in 64bit).

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