Virtually Fun
Fun with Virtualization
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November 2026
- The Ultimate Windows NT MIPS VM
- AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 on QEMU w/Graphics!
- Ultrix 4.5 on GXemul w/Apps!
October 2026
- AIX 4.3.3 on QEMU with local GUI / X11 & Networking
- My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
- AIX 4.1.5 on QEMU
- Personal Computer Simulator/6000
- Data General DG/UX on 86Box
- AIX 3.2.5 in QEMU
- OS/2 PowerPC Edition on QEMU
- Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC on QEMU
- Windows NT 3.1 on Alpha AXP Jensen QEMU
- Windows NT 3.1 MIPS on QEMU
- Windows NT 4.0 MIPS on Siemens RM-200 emulated in QEMU
- SINIX-N aka Reliant UNIX on QEMU MIPS
- Insignia NTrigue – The Forgotten Citrix X11 Protocol!
September 2026
August 2026
July 2026
June 2026
May 2026
April 2026
- Downgrading the Plexus P20 emulator to Visual C++ 2003
- Fun with POSX subsystem on NT
- Running back to 2002 (the hard way)
- SABRE Fighter Plane Simulator for Windows NT RISC
March 2026
- OpenTTD Windows NT RISC
- SDLPoP – Price of Persia for Windows NT RISC – Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC
- WinTown – Micropolis (SimCity) for NT RISC
February 2026
- IM UNDER ATTACK by some kind of weird AI infused DDOS
- Yet another GCC 1.40 *SOME ASSEBMLY REQUIRED
- OpenVMS 7.3 VAX on SIMH via Docker – With VNC to DEC Windows
January 2026
December 2025
November 2025
- MacOS RAR via Finder Quick Actions Extension
- OmniOS / Illumos / Solaris / SunOS / ARM64 / AARCH64 on QEMU
- MIPS RISC/os on MAME
October 2025
September 2025
- I just wanted to play Simpsons Hit & Run, or how I really hate Apple peripherals
- UNAUTHORIZED WINDOWS/386
- How to train your Dragon^H^H AI overlord
August 2025
- Today is 30 years since the launch of Windows 95
- A quick lookback at Virtual PC for Windows
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for PowerPC NT
- Web Rendering Proxy 4.9 – Featuring Ultra Fast GIF Render
June 2025
May 2025
April 2025
February 2025
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
- A modern re-implementation of RCPD (Remote Copy Daemon)
- VNCFOX – Better way of browsing modern web on vintage machines
- DUX SimCity UNIX aka Micropolis on IRIX 6.5, AIX 4.3, 5.1, HP-UX 11.31
- Compiling Linux 0.11 using the December 1991 Windows NT Pre-release
July 2024
- Trying to download the latest VMware Workstation Pro?
- A quick video on installing Windows NT 4.0 with Wack0’s maciNTosh 0.05
- Quick thought on the CrowdStrike outage
- Attempting to port Alexander Batalov’s Fallout1-re to RISC
- Rairii’s incredible port of ARC & Drivers for NT PowerPC to G3 Macintoshes
- WRP 4.8.0 – Simple HTML Mode with Image Support!
- RealAudio Personal Server
- Installing older version of QEMU on MacOS using Homebrew
June 2024
- WRP – Simple HTML / Reader Mode
- relax: Segmentation fault
- Two things that really annoy me!
- Let’s build a Linux kernel from Windows!
- Squeezing the bytes out of webhosting & Linux with SquashFS & Overlay
- Building MS-DOS 4.00 under OS/2 2.x
May 2024
- DooM, GCC & AI
- In Defense of the Mac Pro 2023
- So everyone is going nuts for free VMware Workstation
- Classic Marathon free on STEAM!
April 2024
- Compiling MS-DOS 4.0 from DOS 4.0, on a PS/2!
- MZ is back, baby! – Source to MS-DOS 4.0 / European DOS / Multi-tasking DOS drivers released!
- Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 3 Debian makes the world go ’round
- Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 2 Building the kernel
- Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 1 Qemu
- Adding the missing part of DoomNew – audio
- [PC-98] How an obscure fighting game for Japanese PCs can ruin your day
March 2024
- Looking at UnixWare 7.1.1 on VMware & Qemu yet again!
- Using MIT PC/IP with SLiRP & a virtual Cisco Router
- Announcing Cockatrice III 0.5g
- Building MIT PC/IP, or making apple pie
- So, I used to think Lan Manager Domains and early NT Domains were the same thing
- The world vs NetBEUI
- Setting up SNA networking with Hercules using DLSw
- So, I finally sat down and beat Space Quest II
- Installing NetManage Chameleon on Windows 3.0!
- Can you run other OS/2 Presentation Managers on other versions?
February 2024
- An actual look at Microsoft OS/2 2.0
- Everyone has a theory on why OS/2 failed, and here is mine: The PS/2 Model 60
- Porting Sarien to OS/2 Presentation Manager
- Thunking for fun & a lack of profit
- Announcing EmuWoW Beta 1 (AXP Preview1)
- New version of the MS-DOS Player
- Getting Graylog onto the internet
- Targeting OS/2 with Visual Studio 2003
- Porting GCC to 32bit OS/2
- Modernising the National Geographic CD-ROM collection
- Totally unfair comparison of Microsoft C
- Apparently talking about DOS Extenders is too hot for Twitter: AKA Phar Lap 386
January 2024
- Phar Lap’s 286/DOS-Extender: why nobody used it for games
- Too many hard disks? The smiley face boot crash
- Check out Julio Merino’s article on real mode memory allocation:
- so I was excited to try this protoweb thing!
- Because I hate losing my mind with Apache
- Using an AIM-VPN EPII Plus in a Cisco 3845 or how to convert an EPII to HPII
- So it turns out GCC could have been available on Windows NT the entire time!
- The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of its Fall. / A Chronicle of the Unix Wars
- Win32Emu / DIY WOW
- In some weird twist almost all the old NetBSD source code is gone. again
- SINIX-Z 5.42 on 86Box
December 2023
- Happy 2024
- 86 DOS Version 0.11 found!
- Merry Christmas 2023!
- Sun Ray adventures pt1
- NASA Saturn V LVDC
- Cross compiling to BSD on Windows (BOW) from Win32
- Both Johns reunite for a 30th anniversary celebration of DooM!
- BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
- Running Graylog on Windows
November 2023
- Zork for the PDP-11 / RT-11 recreated
- Don’t waste money on a math coprocessor they said;
- Another G5, Another SSD nightmare
- SoftWindows on OpenVMS
October 2023
- 32bits of disappointment, upgrading the IBM PS/2 model 60
- DVD-RAM? More like DVD-WRONG
- Building OS/2 apps from QuickC for Windows
- Since there had been some confusion on how to install MacOS 9 on OS X
- Knights of the Old Republic PowerPC
- Re-visiting Red Ribbon Linux on the PS3
- Inside Windows 2000
- Stadia controllers can be re-flashed to generic PC controllers
- Patching Touhou 6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil) to run on a 3dfx Voodoo 2
- Windows NT 3.1 on DEC Alpha AXP
September 2023
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