VirtualBox, Ubuntu and XP

[Lisa]

gimp has filters too, but not as good as photoshop

[Lisa]

I can't get my age of empires working with this virtual box,  it's not biggie as it is installed on the windows machine so i can play it on there when i want to..
everything else i have tried works so far.
Gonna try sims next... i think you may need cd cracks to make them work properly, as the cd drive doesn't work the same in a virtual windows.

[Nizzle]

http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/how-to-adobe-photoshop-cs2-on-ubuntu-10-steps/

sims 2 isn't gonna work..

btw Lisa you might want to try VMware Workstation for that game.. VMware Workstation currently is the only virtual pc application with hardware acceleration (still crappy but better than nothing)

and btw try Cedega?

[Lisa]

why won't sims 2 work on virtualbox? because of the hardware acceleration?

[Brains]

Its power hungry Lisa and only just ran on my XP setup
So I aint surprised 

I am trying GIMP for my editing piccies etc currently and then
during week will try to get Adobe Photoshop 7 to run but had
enough hassles with it this weekend so dont wanta mess it up
while its working good 

[Nizzle]

why won't sims 2 work on virtualbox? because of the hardware acceleration?

yeah.. sims 2 wants alot of hardware for such a silly game
crappy coding..

[Lisa]

damn...

[Brains]

Im addicted to the game though Lisa so looks like windows has to stay in some form

[Lisa]

at least until they put better hardware acceleration in to a virtual machine

[Brains]

Still BIll on OL (Brow) is trying to help get me to boot straight too Ubuntu and not windows lol

[Spite]

  I'm missing Orbiter.  Does anyone know if that will run on Virtualbox?

[Lisa]

dunno, what is it and what specs does it require?

[Spite]

dunno, what is it and what specs does it require?

  It's a space flight simulator.  (Hangs head in shame, and covers 'Geek' tattoo on left arm. (Done in henna, of course.  Needles hurt too much.)) Not particularly high specs.  I think it runs on anything from 650 mhz and above.  I've had it running on quite an old clunker, with onboard graphics and only 256mb RAM.  It's a freebie, too.  Link below.

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

[Lisa]

i'll try it for you since it is free...

[Spite]

i'll try it for you since it is free...

  Whoo-hoo!  A Guinea Pig!  Don't forget the third party sound-pack!  And make me a cup of Tea, whilst you're at it, woman!  (Been ages since anyone's done owt for me.  The power's gone to my head!)