Streamlining windows/taking out the middle man ??
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Streamlining windows/taking out the middle man ??
Hi,
I remember years and years ago at some internet show in london there was an exhibitor who changed their shell from win95/98 to netscape.
With a minimaly installed XP setup (base, directx, networking and as little possible else running) would it be possible to get the components needed *only* launched to then spawn automatically PearPC and thus OSX ? Would this present much is any of an improvement ?
Cheers,
./P
I remember years and years ago at some internet show in london there was an exhibitor who changed their shell from win95/98 to netscape.
With a minimaly installed XP setup (base, directx, networking and as little possible else running) would it be possible to get the components needed *only* launched to then spawn automatically PearPC and thus OSX ? Would this present much is any of an improvement ?
Cheers,
./P
Yeah... I know that people used to replace Explorer with other shells. And you porbably also remember 98lite (which is available as XPlite in the meantime, see http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html ).
But frankly, I doubt that such measures make sense with todays computers (and you can't use a low end PC for PearPC anyway...) You will be able to save some RAM, though.
kybernaut
But frankly, I doubt that such measures make sense with todays computers (and you can't use a low end PC for PearPC anyway...) You will be able to save some RAM, though.
kybernaut
you can change the shell in Win9x from Explorer to any Windows application: simply change the SHELL setting in SYSTEM.INI. You can also run the Win95 version of Explorer on Win98, which is many many times faster. This is, of course, one of the things that 98lite can do for you automatically.
You can still change the shell in Win2k/XP with a registry setting depending on whether you want to change it for one user or for all users of the system. Unfortunately I don't know off hand which key this is. kybernaut makes a good point though - maybe it would be better to build a minimal linux system containing only what you need to run PearPC. This way you would have much more control over the overhead added by the emulator's host OS than with Windows.
You can still change the shell in Win2k/XP with a registry setting depending on whether you want to change it for one user or for all users of the system. Unfortunately I don't know off hand which key this is. kybernaut makes a good point though - maybe it would be better to build a minimal linux system containing only what you need to run PearPC. This way you would have much more control over the overhead added by the emulator's host OS than with Windows.
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In a couple of months time (hopefully) PPC *will* be faster than a crappy 233/450 MHz G3
What would be very cool is if Apple properly recognised PearPC and did some kinda driver thing for it - eg with VMware, most Linux distros come with the VMware X server. So you're installing OS X, and it sez '... your PearPC gfx card has been detected, installing drivers...."
Sweet
What would be very cool is if Apple properly recognised PearPC and did some kinda driver thing for it - eg with VMware, most Linux distros come with the VMware X server. So you're installing OS X, and it sez '... your PearPC gfx card has been detected, installing drivers...."
Sweet
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