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Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

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TimTheTinker · 1790347606 · focus · HN ↗
Why is this better than running Windows 98 on a guest VM (non-emulated) on modern x86 hardware?
Surely a modern hypervisor should be able to emulate a retro Voodoo 3D card.
1. trollbridge · 1790357852 · focus · HN ↗
  No modern hypervisors emulate a Voodoo 3D card. The upcoming 86Box release will probably have Riva 128 and ATI Rage 128 emulation as well.
  Using an accurate emulation of such a device means you can use the drivers that existed back then that games back then were QA'd on.
  Most modern hypervisors aren't built with Windows 98 in mind, either - it's not really what they're for, and a modern Mac can't run an x86 hypervisor anyway.

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